Sentence examples for essentially defunct from inspiring English sources

It is now essentially defunct.

This most famous inevitablism has been revised so thoroughly that it, too, is essentially defunct.

The health-care system is essentially defunct, and, with a quarter of the population infected with AIDS, the funeral business is among the country's last remaining growth industries.

The company did not admit any violations in the agreement, and there is substantial doubt whether the government will collect any money; Sabretech is essentially defunct.

While KISS, still led by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, continues to tour and recently released a fairly strong late-career album ("Sonic Boom," initially available only at Wal-Mart), Björn Ulvaeus, one of the original members of ABBA, has claimed that his group, which has been inactive as a recording unit since the early eighties, is essentially defunct: We will never appear on stage again.

Deep-rooted protectionist impulses have short-circuited the world's progress toward free trade, and the WTO is essentially defunct by 2020.

Of course, the Internet went ape-shit over this idea -- #RIPSpotify they cried -- with people left right and center denouncing the service as dead, defunct and essentially destroyed.

Party Mode essentially takes the best part of defunct photos app Color, namely the ability to see all the photos being taken at a certain place, and creates a centralized Event page for viewing them.

Apple Music is essentially an amalgamation of Spotify and the old – now defunct – Beats Music service, with the ability to stream just about every song you can wish for, create playlists and have your tastes catered to by telling the service what you like, and what you don't.

Though Chevrolet has not built a V-8-powered rear-wheel-drive sedan in nearly two decades, Pontiac, the defunct General Motors division, produced the well-received 2008 GT GT and 2009 G8 GXP models, essentially rebadged VE Commodores.

Upon announcing Nygaard's departure, Becca also revealed that his company would hold the fused team's license and that it would continue to be based out of Luxembourg, essentially confirming the 2012 entity as an extension of this franchise while Team RadioShack would be considered defunct.