Charlie Brooker

If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.

English Critic

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

British Author

Dominic Holland

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

English Comedian

Kenneth Frazier

You either innovate or you become defunct.

American Businessman

Use 'defunct' for businesses or organizations that have stopped operating and dissolved.

Ceased Operations

'Defunct' can refer to practices or institutions that have become part of history.

Historical Context

Use when technology advances make older versions useless or redundant.

Technological Shifts

Use 'defunct' for items or ideas that are outdated, not current preferences.

Out of Date

When concepts no longer have relevance, 'defunct' explains their current status.

Lack of Relevance

May describe historical items or figures that influenced their time but are no longer recognized.

Historic Mentions

In legal contexts, 'defunct' can refer to persons who have passed away.

Legal Usage

The use of 'defunct' for deceased persons is not common and sounds formal or outdated.

Not Common Usage

Mostly used in inheritance issues to denote the deceased owner of an estate.

Estate Matters

 as well as many other devices and power grids around the world. And the second is an orbital chain reaction of collisions. With about 7,500 metric tons of defunct spacecraft, spent boosters, and discarded equipment orbiting our planet

What if every satellite...

 miles apart at one spring we stop and gaze upon its babbling current thirsty they're reluctant to drink horn creaks it's below the defunct orphan uranium mine which operated above us on the rim