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He ventured that the old shibboleths of "big government" and the Communist conspiracy have outworn their meaning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tell us, you, who have outworn the common tragedy and passed the narrow way, what lies beyond its gate?

From Beatrice by Haggard, Henry Rider

Tennyson is fresh also in scenic scenery; he is fresh with the things that others have outworn; mountains, desert islands, castles, elves, what you will that is conventional. 

From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

Strange how we use phrases which have outworn their meaning!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

Thank God!" he cried, "I have outworn that mania of searching for prettiness.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher