as in archaic
having passed its time of use or usefulness
that literary style is a bit passé nowadays
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Adjective
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An archaic Kentucky law had been brought out of hiding in 1920 when Will Lockett, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to die for raping a nine-year-old white girl from Lexington.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Perhaps, the time has come to go beyond archaic political loyalties and engage issues on the basis of evidence, merit, and truth, not short-term political expediency.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Bersten, meanwhile, dated model Alexis Ren, whom he was paired with in season 27 of DWTS.—
Stephanie Wenger,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Glee is aggressively rewatchable — a series that is somehow poignant, brilliantly campy, and hilarious while also being so dated that it should never be made again.—
Catherine Mhloyi,
Them.,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Someone had scrawled the words marry me on the rusty derrick.—
Heather Richardson,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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Tiny tornadoes of dust whirl across Mars's rusty plains far faster than scientists thought, a new study reveals.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Howitt and Aghion followed up with a theory on how creative destruction allows one technological advance to give way to another, so what's a breakthrough in one generation is obsolete by the next.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
13 Oct. 2025
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Far from being obsolete, language degrees are the very foundation for preparing graduates to use, guide and improve these technologies.—
Annie K. Lamar,
Mercury News,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Passé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pass%C3%A9. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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