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
Until Uber and Lyft arrived, ride-seekers were reliant on outmoded taxicab operations.
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The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
This has been attributed in part to surging loads from artificial intelligence data centers, as well as outmoded energy infrastructure.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
For years, military theorists and political scientists have argued that airpower is overrated and, in some ways, outmoded.
—David A. Deptula, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2025
Would today’s investment be outmoded 12 months from now?
—Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
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Or why roads and other critical infrastructure projects now take untold years and insane amounts of money to complete, and by the time they are finally opened are already rendered all but obsolete?—
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The electrical infrastructure was obsolete, deemed undersized and non-compliant with current code.—
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.—
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Nearly 20 years later, the law may seem archaic, the Enquirer previously reported, and may be a violation of the First Amendment.—
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The pair led City to the Third Division title in May 1985, but triumph turned to tragedy on the final day of the season as the antiquated main stand caught fire with devastating consequences.—
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Insufferable antiquated federal standards reflect low expectations that do not meet the modern day needs of working New Yorkers.—
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“Outmoded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outmoded. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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