become obsolete
Example Sentences
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Shares of software companies fell sharply on Tuesday after a release from a major artificial-intelligence player revived investor fears that some of those companies’ business models could become obsolete.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
Companies include depreciation expenses in their earnings because eventually their fixed assets will wear out or become obsolete.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Shows get cancelled, comedians get persecuted and media genres become obsolete, but those setbacks never have and never will signal the end of the art.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
“Each year 2,000 of them become obsolete; they enter the great verbal bathtub of our collective being. Presently circling around that open drain are these words: stoicism, fortitude, duty, honor, sacrifice.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2024
Where the devices described have become obsolete, we have adopted the nomenclature of the old works on Cornish methods.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
