outlived ... usefulness• Daniels said a number of programs that were being recommended for elimination had outlived their usefulness while others had never been successful.• In order to enhance his credibilityFedora was allowed to exposeJohn Vassall who by then had outlived his usefulness.• Even the message on the answering machine has outlived its usefulness, providing no current or future information.• It also includes discouragingculturaltraits that have outlived their usefulness and may be otherwise harmful to society.• And when they have outlived their usefulness, they are slaughtered or sold cheaply for labexperiments.• By contrast, the over-hyped Times Guide to 1992 now seems to have outlived its usefulness.• I question, personally, whether these inspectors have not outlived their usefulness.