obsolescent

Example Sentences

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DVRs aren’t needed for streaming services; that’s what has made them obsolescent.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 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

The later withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey mildly assuaged Soviet humiliation, although in August, Kennedy had contemplated removing them because they were obsolescent.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022

This philosophy of disruption demands, above all, that technology continuously drive down labor costs and regularly render itself obsolescent.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021

Poor devils! condemned by the brutality of obsolescent laws to moulder in captivity in expiation for pitiful debts.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.