as in old-fashionedness
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Noun
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Think of the idea of planned obsolescence, which is baked into all technology.—
Wayne Elsey,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025 -
To a renaissance of human creativity or its gradual obsolescence?—
Wolfgang Messner,
The Conversation,
2 June 2025
Noun
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First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2025
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America had brought into the world an agent of displacement no less profound than what antiquity had known — the raw power of capitalism.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Antiquation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antiquation. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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