How to Use obsolescence in a Sentence

obsolescence

noun

• Once a useful tool, slide rules have fallen into obsolescence.
• And the worst part of the whole story is that M.P.s are conniving in the rapid process of their own obsolescence.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Jan. 2017
• Over the past few years, the Grammys have been fighting a war against obsolescence.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 20 Nov. 2019
• Is the arc of kitchen goods long but bends toward obsolescence?
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• The worst of it is probably the sense of human obsolescence and doom that many of us convey.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Like many workers across the Rust Belt, he has been forced to ponder his own obsolescence.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2020
• This is the sort of movie that’s been squeezed into obsolescence — a mid-budget yarn that isn’t begging for prizes.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• By 2027, the class could join the battleship in obsolescence.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• Not long ago, Jones seemed to be at risk of sliding into obsolescence.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• Paired with the alarming pace of skills obsolescence, this is a pressing concern.
  — Philippe Riveron, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, there is a need to end the planned obsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the rich.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• All Zuckerberg et al know is that stasis is the path to certain obsolescence.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• The threat of obsolescence ricocheted through the world’s staid central banks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
• Where Trump may be unique, though, is on another metric: in hastening the obsolescence of the State of the Union itself.
  — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
• Thanks to the invasion, tanks are teetering on the edge of obsolescence.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2022
• Even though Wisconsin remains a 50-50 state in statewide elections, Democrats would be on the verge of obsolescence.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• There will be a lot of lessons for foreign militaries to learn from when the war is over, but the obsolescence of the modern surface ship is not likely one of them.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2022
• All coal plants would have to shut down, and natural gas plants would be phased into obsolescence.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• Svendsen, for his part, fears no obsolescence, no matter what the rule ends up being.
  — Luke Decock, charlotteobserver, 1 June 2017
• And the idea of obsolescence — of the present slipping irretrievably into the past — haunts her recent work.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• Matthew’s purpose in bringing them into the scene was to scoff at their obsolescence, not to boast of their endorsement.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• The great crisis for the left today—the source of its angst and hatefulness—is its own encroaching obsolescence.
  — Shelby Steele, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• The fear of obsolescence creeps up on several characters in the book.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
• But the alliance still seemed on its way to obsolescence, hobbled by a lack of purpose and disunity.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• What followed was a cool preview of the future obsolescence of people who drive.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 July 2019
• Jean Smart schools Jack in the ways of graceful aging in a touching speech about obsolescence and eternity.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• By the early 2000s, lever actions seemed doomed to obsolescence.
  — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 1 Oct. 2020
• That was an outlier to the trend of growing obsolescence.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• The Human-Tech Gap Fear of obsolescence is at the heart of the dock workers’ strike, as automation threatens traditional roles.
  — Ethan Karp, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Like tanks, large surface ships, including aircraft carriers, are at risk of obsolescence.
  — Lorenz Meier, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024