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
Obsolescence in this connexion must be understood only of common educated speech, that is, the average speaker's vocabulary.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour
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