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obsolescence

noun as in disuse

noun as in extinction

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Meanwhile, newspapers continue to fight an uphill battle to get users to pay for digital content as their print editions fade into obsolescence.

Existential obsolescence breeds anger, resentment, irrationality and violence.

From Salon

With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

Though 24 still stood on Seattle sidewalks in 1950, the city considered banning them in 1953 because of their “obsolescence and homeliness,” the same report said.

Most run according to a combination of budget cycles, maintenance and depreciation schedules, accounting rules and plain old obsolescence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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