as in obsolete
having passed its time of use or usefulness
outmoded computers that can be recycled
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Recent Examples of outmoded
Notable international relations scholars—primarily those of a realist orientation—believed that in a unipolar world, U.S. alliances had become outmoded.
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Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
Promise Confections indicated in a prepared release that the nearly 60-year-old factory was outmoded and couldn’t be easily modernized.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
Clinical research still largely relies on this outmoded approach, which frequently requires participants to organize their lives around the trial, and often includes traveling, finding a place to stay, and taking time off from work.
—Robert Metcalf and Jeffrey Francer, STAT, 10 July 2024
The break offered a chance to move away from this outmoded practice and adapt to the more complex reality of China’s twenty-first-century economy.
—Jeremy Wallace, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2022
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Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
Promise Confections indicated in a prepared release that the nearly 60-year-old factory was outmoded and couldn’t be easily modernized.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
Clinical research still largely relies on this outmoded approach, which frequently requires participants to organize their lives around the trial, and often includes traveling, finding a place to stay, and taking time off from work.
—Robert Metcalf and Jeffrey Francer, STAT, 10 July 2024
The break offered a chance to move away from this outmoded practice and adapt to the more complex reality of China’s twenty-first-century economy.
—Jeremy Wallace, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outmoded
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General and administrative expenses increased to $12.9 million from $11.9 million, primarily due to costs from the company's bi-annual national summit and obsolete inventory expenses.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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However, this rapid transformation also stirs anxiety, with employees worrying their jobs may become obsolete.Cory McNeley, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Coppola’s emphasis on white protagonist Cesar is, in Hollywood liberal terms, facile and archaic.Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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While Walter’s traditional village represents an archaic and beautiful (though flawed) way of living, Nina’s sojourns into the mountains are like time-traveling to a worse, more restrictive way of life.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
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Such a prospect is one that the city’s antiquated water orthodoxy has never managed to fathom.Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Ahead of Election Day Cyclorama: The Shape of Things contains a wide spread of imagery: footage on both pro- and anti-segregation riots, recordings from antiquated circus acts featuring a dancing elephant, silhouettes of what appear to be Southern belles in hoop skirts that laugh over tea.Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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The architecture preserves this history from the medieval Islamic Kasbah of the Udayas to the Colonial-era neighborhoods and beyond.Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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During a proceeding, for example, the College of Cardinals stays in the Casa Santa Marta, an ornate, medieval dormitory where they are fed and tended to by an order of nuns.Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Outmoded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outmoded. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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