Sentence examples for obsolescent term from inspiring English sources

Writing in A Dictionary of Chemical Terms, Couch defined 'metalloid' as an old, obsolescent term for 'nonmetal.' In contrast, Webster's New International Dictionary noted that use of the term metalloid to refer to nonmetals was the norm.

He could temporarily push out of his mind the horrors of the depredations of the planet being carried out by big business, or the dumbing-down of people's minds through the mass media, and he could relish the cultivation of what he himself termed "obsolete and obsolescent" varieties of apple, such as Royal Russett and Orleans Reinette.

Europe and Canada have lost all stomach for this mission that is now promoted primarily in terms of "saving NATO" for future (and obsolescent) "out of area" struggles in a world in which Western strategic preferences can no longer predominate.

By the time of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Japanese had nearly rebuilt their carrier forces in terms of numbers, but their planes, many of which were obsolescent, were largely flown by inexperienced and poorly trained pilots.

D. Price Jones: Obsolescent, Jonathan's first slip?

Lupita Sanchez is a veteran member of the obsolescent class.

The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian.

They come down when they are obsolescent in 30-40 years. 30-40 years

Zhou Xiaochuan said there was a need to reset "the obsolescent unipolar world economic order".

Dictionaries list some words and some meanings as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" to indicate this process.

The whole Playboy thing is obsolescent, as is Hefner, who is 89.