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washed-up

adjective as in of no further use

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DiCaprio stars as a washed-up far-left revolutionary who is dragged back into action to help his daughter, while Penn plays his ruthless military nemesis.

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No amount of protest-too-much screeching from Cheung, which included calling White “washed-up,” can conceal that of course the rock god is far, far cooler than Cheung could ever hope to be in a million years.

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Like his character, washed-up Formula One racer Sonny Hayes, Pitt is returning to the grandest version of this race by his own volition, with his own set of rules.

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Two days after the Dodgers released a washed-up Chris Taylor, he was starting in center field for the Angels.

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On the most basic level, “Stick” is about a prematurely washed-up golfer who takes a teen prodigy under his wing and on the road.

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