obsolescent

Example Sentences

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“Without this investment strategy, much of the existing housing stock across the country would go into disrepair, become obsolescent, and in some cases become unlivable,” Schwartz said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024

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

For the most part, they remain deeply invested in an obsolescent system that is teetering on collapse.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2022

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

When the university increased under Elizabeth, the idea of living in halls in the medi�val fashion, as we have seen, was obsolescent, so that the result of the increase was to enlarge the colleges.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John