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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
obsolesce .
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Examples
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Biting caustics that ate into the flesh of past generations of cancer patients have been obsolesced by radiation with X-ray and radium. . .
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Biting caustics that ate into the flesh of past generations of cancer patients have been obsolesced by radiation with X-ray and radium. . .
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Biting caustics that ate into the flesh of past generations of cancer patients have been obsolesced by radiation with X-ray and radium. . .
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Retrieval: What does this artifact retrieve from the past that was previously obsolesced?
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He says, "The future looks nothing like democracy, because democracy, which sought to empower the individual, is being obsolesced by a social order which hyperempowers him."
HyperDemocracy: From Personal to Participatory and Beyond in One Day 2008
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He says, "The future looks nothing like democracy, because democracy, which sought to empower the individual, is being obsolesced by a social order which hyperempowers him."
HyperDemocracy: From Personal to Participatory and Beyond in One Day 2008
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It's amazing how gadgets age so quickly, iPod is just so much easier to convert video that the Lyra has obsolesced.
Boing Boing 2006
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While independent sources validate building inventory of now obsolesced Prescott x86 units to increasingly noticeable channel levels, the same sources indicate minimal if any channel inventory developing over this period for Advanced Micro Devices, Whittington noted.
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That is, political parties and their explicit policies have simply been obsolesced by the images presented by the party leaders, on the one hand, and the services taken for granted by the community, regardless of the party that happens to be in power, on the other hand.
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The Sputnik event was another thing altogether, which simply obsolesced the planet itself as Nature disappeared into an art form.
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