as in inactivities
lack of use
despite the long years of desuetude, the old manual typewriter seemed to work just fine
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abandonments
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After a rash of abandonments led to infant deaths in the late 1990s, Texas became the first in the nation to pass a state law legalizing abandonment.—
Kelsy Mittauer,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Desuetudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desuetudes. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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