obsolescent
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DVRs aren’t needed for streaming services; that’s what has made them obsolescent.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
But Randolph and Hastings always planned on video streaming rendering the DVD-by-mail service obsolescent once technology advanced to the point that watching movies and TV shows through internet connections became viable.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023
The Times’s Sarah Lyall described le Carré as “one of the last great practitioners of the increasingly obsolescent art of letter-writing.”
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022
The later withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey mildly assuaged Soviet humiliation, although in August, Kennedy had contemplated removing them because they were obsolescent.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022
The scribe did not understand the obsolescent word fawe or faye, so he wrote the nearest word to it to make sense, I-told = ‘held, considered.’
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
Vocabulary lists containing obsolescent
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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