obsolescence
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Obsolescence is sadly the fate of most reporters.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2024
Obsolescence would be a sorry fate for a class that convinced itself that it had constructed the best and the last sociopolitical regime.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018
The French investigation stems from a complaint filed in December by a French consumer group named Stop Programmed Obsolescence, or the French abbreviation HOP.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2018
But a 2008 study published in Science reached the opposite conclusion: Obsolescence has accelerated over the past 2 decades as journals have gone online, with authors tending to ignore older papers.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 4, 2014
The pass which marked the entrance to the Field of Obsolescence was barely visible ten miles away just a little east of north.
From The Runaway Asteroid by Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]
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