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The phrase "were phased out" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a process in which something is gradually discontinued or replaced. Here is an example: "Due to advancements in technology, traditional film cameras were phased out and digital cameras became the standard in the photography industry."
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All three programs were phased out by 2009.
Native American slavery and white indentured servitude were phased out.
Many were phased out over the last two years.
Gasoline-powered vehicles were phased out, leaving electric golf carts as the preferred mode of transportation.
Steve Rose One downside of Disney buying Pixar was that the latter's idiosyncrasies were phased out.
Lukas says the cars were phased out because of an increasingly litigious society.
It was a long and bitter battle, but eventually the subsidies were phased out.
Those purchases were phased out in March, but there is now talk of resuming them.
By 1947 all these controls were phased out, except property-price regulations.
Jury trials, which were phased out by the Bolsheviks, were revived in the 1990s.
In 2002 euro notes and coins came in and the old paper currencies were phased out.
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