passe
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The dreamy vistas of domestic arts, which may have once seemed frivolous, passé, even politically retrograde for some, become a source of deep allure for people of different political stripes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
“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
Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
A pretty foot it was, and still a handsome woman she, this daughter of the Medicis, notwithstanding her being now somewhat passé.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
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