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WordBand 7–8Toofey picks
obsolete
/ˈɒbsəˌliːt/
adjective
No longer used because something newer is better.
- “Typewriters became obsolete when computers arrived.”Toofey
- “At school, he had to learn out of obsolete books.”Tatoeba
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))