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

The Times’s Sarah Lyall described le Carré as “one of the last great practitioners of the increasingly obsolescent art of letter-writing.”

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022

Yep, I’m sounding like a hilariously grumpy, obsolescent old fart.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2016

No pains were spared in verifying particulars, especially through elderly people on the farms, who could best explain the old-fashioned terms and who had a clear remembrance of obsolescent details of sæter life.

From Lisbeth Longfrock by Poulsson, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth)