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But these days, many of the traditional Olympic sports are beginning to feel passe to a younger generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

While some shoppers and even Ms. Stangl see the term “work wear” as passe, Banana Republic still has a dedicated section on its website called “The Workwear Edit.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

For any readers under 30, this observation will seem ridiculously obvious, even passe.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

"I think the genre has become passe, like beauty pageants used to be a big event on television. It's slipping into that category."

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2022

"The matters gothe nat well to passe in Englonde,” he had stated, "nor shall nat do tyll every thyng be common, and that there be no villayns nor gentylmen.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Even as ramps threaten to become more popular outside of typical foodie circles—Leland isn’t hosting the only special ramps-themed menu in the country this spring—to true believers, they will never become passé.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

“The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

“He says, ‘People once used to put sugar on their salads, but I can’t believe how passé that is,’” Albala explains.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2025

I think it might be passé of me even to ask about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

Of Mrs. Rosamond Allerton, I have only to say, for it is all I know, that she is rich, unwedded, and still splendidly beautiful, though of course somewhat passé compared with herself twenty years since.

From The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

Well, Mozart lived in the last days of the old world, and the old world and the thoughts and sentiments of the old world are certainly a little passés now.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman

The mother shed no tears; when from her bed she saw us carry it away she looked mournfully on, and as we went out she whispered, "Mes beaux jours sont passés."

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various

"That's right, growl ahead, thou, tes beaux jours sont passés, but for me l'amour, l'amour—que c'est gai, que c'est frais!" he half sung, half shouted.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd