antiquate
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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
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
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
A little peaceful study and development of submarines and aircraft will antiquate our present antidotes.
From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy
We wish the name malignant were obsolete and antiquate, if so be the thing itself, which is such a root of bitterness, were extirpated out of the church.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
The government has introduced a bill to end antiquated laws preventing Roman Catholic or Jewish prime ministers from being involved in the process of making Church of England appointments.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
Michel’s son, Matt, has sought to modernize the team with a score-keeping app that has proved more reliable than Michel’s antiquated paper method.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.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
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
