passe
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While some shoppers and even Ms. Stangl see the term “work wear” as passe, Banana Republic still has a dedicated section on its website called “The Workwear Edit.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
That sort of picture is now often described as one that Hollywood has put on the passe schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Economists and policymakers have sparred in recent weeks over whether the Fed's "soft landing" aspirations are altogether passe or still credible.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2022
Right now, the thought of a single-purpose device like the iPod can feel hopelessly passe.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022
"The matters gothe nat well to passe in Englonde,” he had stated, "nor shall nat do tyll every thyng be common, and that there be no villayns nor gentylmen.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Standing desks are passé if not accompanied by an underdesk treadmill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
“The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
Even though the Department of Justice released a memo earlier this week concerning the late sex trafficker and financier’s case, the president made it known that he considered the topic passé.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025
Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
"Dearest Robert!" remonstrated Mr. Bulmer, "you are sadly passé: that pose is of the Beardsley period and went out many magazines ago."
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch
The mother shed no tears; when from her bed she saw us carry it away she looked mournfully on, and as we went out she whispered, "Mes beaux jours sont passés."
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
"That's right, growl ahead, thou, tes beaux jours sont passés, but for me l'amour, l'amour—que c'est gai, que c'est frais!" he half sung, half shouted.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman
Well, Mozart lived in the last days of the old world, and the old world and the thoughts and sentiments of the old world are certainly a little passés now.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.
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