defunct
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Defunct wildlife farms sat as close as one mile from the entrances.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2021
Mr. Delzer, the proprietor of a secondhand store in Nashville called Defunct Books, has a different view.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2020
Defunct, unused accounts are almost assuredly included in this number, too.
From Forbes • Mar. 21, 2011
Defunct timetables papered the walls; cigarette butts and chewing gum were stomped deep into the linoleum.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
There seldom passes a Night, but we hear of some Defunct Plebeian eloping out of one Church-yard or other: nor are those of better Blood more secure, for all their Bolts and Barricadoes.
From The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, fl. 1732
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