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antiquate

[an-ti-kweyt] / ˈæn tɪˌkweɪt /


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The state made its own luck by allowing its ferry fleet to antiquate and amass $270 million in deferred maintenance.

From Seattle Times Jan. 21, 2024

His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg.

From Time Magazine Archive

It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such works are held as antiquate and mossy; And as regards the younger folk, indeed, They never yet have been so pert and saucy.

From Faust by Bayard Taylor

Soul, mind, spirit, these old and simple words are the strongest, the profoundest, the surest; age cannot antiquate them, nor science undo them; they last with the rocks, and still go beyond.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson

Additional days by which Trump is extending a waiver of the Jones Act, an antiquated law that requires goods shipped between American ports to be transported on vessels that are U.S.-built, -flagged and -owned.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

So what’s the catalyst for his noteworthy preoccupation with masculinity and all these archetypal characters who embody its antiquated themes?

From Salon May 27, 2026

Being 130 years old doesn’t make it too antiquated to follow.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

Maya’s parents, because they weren’t antiquated dinosaurs, didn’t care that she was gay.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.

From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton

One would represent me as attempting to undermine our native tongue; another, as modernizing; a third, as antiquating it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various




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