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Meanings of obsolescence in English
State of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order.
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Examples for "obsoleteness"
Examples for "obsoleteness"
1
The reader is, therefore, embarrassed at once with dead and with foreign languages, with obsoleteness and innovation.
2
At the obsoleteness of Chaucer's own diction this critic, who writes entirely "for the better brought-up sort," is obliged to shake his learned head.
Usage of obsolescence in English
1
Ultimately, however, no strategy will likely be enough to fend off obsolescence.
2
Fine Gael must either seize this opportunity or face continued political obsolescence.
3
Fashion is change and obsolescence imposed on a pattern of tyrannical conformity.
4
In the obsolescence of this necessity, other buildings had sprung up unfortified.
5
But as Cerf's own email obsolescence shows, digital communications quickly become unreadable.
6
And being a duo, they resisted individual celebration and its instant obsolescence.
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But already a kind of built-in managerial obsolescence was starting to show.
8
But the trusty Viking parachute is finally on the verge of obsolescence.
9
These prescripts, after a long period of obsolescence, had become entirely obsolete.
10
Fine Gael in the FitzGerald years created the conditions now hastening its obsolescence.
11
The site had overlooked the obvious problem of its built-in obsolescence.
12
The problem is technological obsolescence: Wikipedia is getting nearly as old-fashioned as email.
13
Greece's post-2004 struggles were less inexplicable, given the essential obsolescence of man-to-man marking.
14
Yet that model may be approaching obsolescence -or at least a hiatus.
15
The industrial traits in this way tend to obsolescence through disuse.
16
Socialism has become banal and the Socialist party appears to be nearing obsolescence.
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