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> "Obsolescent" means "becoming obsolete."
> . . .

Someone (Lackoff?) has proposed we understand well thru metaphors.  Hope
he's right.  Here's the biological one for the case at hand:

  obsolescent = old but not dead yet, perhaps immortal

  obsolete = dead

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