Sentence examples for lost its currency from inspiring English sources
"lost its currency" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe a situation in which something that was once popular has fallen out of favor and is no longer in use. For example, "The once popular technology has seemingly lost its currency in the marketplace."
"Coming out" now may be a clichéd term, but as the "We Are Atheism" project has shown, it hasn't entirely lost its currency.
Unsurprisingly enough given its overuse, the cliche eventually lost its currency.
But since 9/11, the facile comparison between the nation's first M.B.A. president and a detached chairman of the board has lost its currency.
The program is devoted to the unoriginal notion that a majority of songs written by the great American songwriters celebrated true love, a secular faith that rapidly lost its currency during the rock era.
The publicity materials for "The Future Is Not What It Was," directed by Jay Stull, describe it as being set "in a world not unlike our own, where society's moral compasses have been broken, the church has lost its currency, and no one seems to have any answers".
The N.A.A.C.P. has over the years lost its currency among younger, more educated African-Americans, whose sense of opportunity is such that they are less convinced of their need for a traditional civil rights organization (let alone one with the word "colored" in its title).
A DECADE ago the collapse of Filanbanco, Ecuador's largest bank, was the signal for a wrenching economic collapse that saw the country lose its currency (it adopted the dollar) and at least a million people, who left in search of jobs.
It was a smart choice: full-strength, undiluted modernism, which went in and out of style in the last century, is beginning to lose its currency in this one.
The idea that a de Blasio administration would alienate the wealthy, that the wealthy would revolt against relatively slight tax increases and move to Miami, that they would endure any significant marginalization in the narrative of the city, seems to be losing its currency.
It is also clear that, with time, even the most novel paper loses its currency.
The threat of doxxing so often leveled at women in particular loses its currency.
