obsolescent

[ UK /ˌɒbsəlˈɛsənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɑbsəˈɫɛsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. becoming obsolete
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How To Use obsolescent In A Sentence

  • Depending on where you sit, it's either a document recodifying a revolution or a relic recycling an obsolescent controversy.
  • The assets themselves are technologically obsolescent and simply too expensive and non-competitive to operate even with private sector efficiencies.
  • As with other nations in the pre-war period, the USA had short-range reconnaissance units equipped with slow and obsolescent aircraft.
  • It is a fact that Luftwaffe airmen and ground personnel won their few defensive successes towards war's end with conventional or even obsolescent weapons.
  • In fact, orality, meaning ` the quality of being oral or orally communicated, 'is already in the British vocabulary as a rare and supposed to be obsolescent word. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
  • Perhaps the most notorious example was Attorney General Robert Jackson's opinion (prior to the Lend-Lease Act) that existing statutes gave the President the authority to acquire from the British Government rights for the establishment of naval and air bases in exchange for over-age destroyers and obsolescent military material. Balkinization
  • Much of our existing military hardware is obsolescent.
  • The hostel at Waterbank has served a purpose for 40 years but is now obsolescent.
  • With the databases obtained from the alien refugees, they incoming ships were identified as Dreadnoughts, which are obsolescent capital cruisers.
  • Oh yes, soldiering on... "For some reason Peter and I regularly communicated in this obsolescent patois of the British Empire. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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