obsolesce
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And they are using that power to obsolesce the skinny jean while making mom jeans fashionable.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2021
That new mega-rocket, when built, would essentially obsolesce the Falcon Heavy and the Falcon 9.
From The Verge ● Dec. 1, 2017
If there are to be no '42s to obsolesce the '41s, the '41s are obviously a better-than-usual investment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because those jobs are gone — obsolesced out of existence by advances in technology — those printers are gone.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
Print media has been in decline for more than 15 years, its business model obsolesced by the ubiquity of free online content and the rise of online advertising.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2017
By 1995 it had, much to everyone's relief, been obsolesced and absorbed into the Internet.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
In the phrases that follow, his young children come shuffling toward his bedroom, and in addition to obsolescing the alarm clock, they’re also here to deliver a little lesson about how reality and imagination conjoin.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
But if the city police were trying to enforce an obsolescing moral code, their superiors at the Interior Ministry were apparently embarrassed by the incident.
From Washington Post
Rapidly "developing" nations are those that are most speedily obsolescing their inheritance.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, the heavy winter suit is obsolescing fast.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole force of the most energetic geniuses of the time in philosophy, economics, and art, concentrates itself on demonstrations and reminders that morality and law are only conventions, fallible and continually obsolescing.
From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard
