How to Use obsolete in a Sentence
obsolete
adjective
- The system was made obsolete by their invention.
- I was told my old printer is obsolete and I can't get replacement parts.
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The construction of the Mount Hope Bridge in the late 1920s made the light obsolete.
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Brian Amaral,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 Aug. 2022
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Then all the games were played and the whole thing was obsolete within hours.
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Joe Sullivan,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Feb. 2020
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So why does the world still know the name of gun that's been obsolete for a hundred years?
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Matthew Moss,
Popular Mechanics,
31 Aug. 2020
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The ‘must- have' trends or the ‘in- season’ pieces feel very obsolete.
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NBC News,
22 June 2020
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Yet a plane becomes obsolete at a faster rate than a bridge.
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Jon Sindreu,
WSJ,
25 Jan. 2019
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Inevitably, the best of them build tools that make other kinds of work obsolete.
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James Somers,
The New Yorker,
13 Nov. 2023
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But the time to shut down the unit has come, as streaming has rendered DVDs almost obsolete.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz,
19 Apr. 2023
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And that, of course, is a skill made obsolete through Trump’s victory.
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Jonathan Chait,
Daily Intelligencer,
18 Aug. 2017
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So many little dings have begun to make the rings obsolete.
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Alexis C. Madrigal,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2018
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And who's going to spend for their whole group to get a $1,500 headset that's going to be obsolete in two years?
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Wired Staff,
WIRED,
13 Oct. 2022
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Beyond that, the very idea of Davis would become obsolete.
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Jon Wertheim,
SI.com,
27 Aug. 2019
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The phone will be obsolete after three years, when the major updates stop.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Oct. 2022
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In the future, though, this method could very well become obsolete.
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Kaleigh Fasanella,
Allure,
19 Mar. 2019
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The word, and the breed, are rapidly becoming obsolete.
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Leena Kim,
Town & Country,
3 Oct. 2013
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Perhaps don’t be so quick to dismiss ties as stuffy and obsolete.
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Christian Gollayan,
Men's Health,
29 Nov. 2022
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The song remains the same, but the playback device is somehow obsolete.
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Troy Patterson,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2020
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And if coal happens to be obsolete by then, no problem.
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Nick Stockton,
WIRED,
26 May 2017
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This one may be stretching it a bit, but movie theaters should be obsolete.
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Sonia Ramirez,
Houston Chronicle,
19 Aug. 2020
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By the time a needle reaches your arm, there’s a good chance that the vaccine might be off target or obsolete.
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Matthew Hutson,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2021
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Now there is, and the part of me that tracked every meal, searched for solutions in apps and programs, wrote code, and took notes is obsolete.
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WIRED,
3 Feb. 2023
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Our real hope is that Osprey is obsolete in a few years.
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Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2024
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This means a hard look at legacy structures and strategies that may have been built for (now) obsolete needs.
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Dean Sonderegger,
Forbes,
6 Oct. 2021
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With that, every other method of imaging the brain was obsolete.
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Edmund S. Higgins,
The Conversation,
30 Sep. 2021
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The ice had retreated by miles—and our map was already obsolete.
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Douglas Fox,
National Geographic,
12 Apr. 2016
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With picks like these, your average bar of soap is going to be obsolete soon.
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Glamour Beauty Editors,
Glamour,
15 Jan. 2020
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The idea that people need to be ready for treatment is an idea that’s made completely obsolete by this meth.
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Jeff Eager,
National Review,
7 Feb. 2022
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Yet their greatest hope of all is for a future that renders their job obsolete.
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Vanities,
29 Mar. 2017
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None of this should imply that vaccines have made tests obsolete.
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Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
30 Aug. 2021
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