obsolescent
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As traditional, human-dependent techniques and analog approaches to creation fade away, it makes the spirit of these increasingly obsolescent facets of society all the more precious.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
But Randolph and Hastings always planned on video streaming rendering the DVD-by-mail service obsolescent once technology advanced to the point that watching movies and TV shows through internet connections became viable.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023
This philosophy of disruption demands, above all, that technology continuously drive down labor costs and regularly render itself obsolescent.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021
It’s hard, watching four or five films a day amid crowds of fellow pilgrims, to believe that you’re participating in something marginal, obsolescent or beleaguered.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2016
That part of government which had been concerned with social administration, if it did not end, became at least obsolescent.
From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.
Vocabulary lists containing obsolescent
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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