as in obsolete
having passed its time of use or usefulness
with its demoded '70s look—shag carpeting, no less—that split-level is in need of some serious updating
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Adjective
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Many people now fear that AI will make a huge number of careers obsolete.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026 -
Its older and obsolete buildings have for years been losing office tenants to sleek new skyscrapers that popped up to the west along the Chicago River or in Fulton Market.—
Brian J. Rogal,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
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As prominent Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe and conservative jurist Michael Luttig argued, the archaic law was dangerously flawed and fundamentally ripe for partisan exploitation.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
9 June 2026
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The very details that make the genre come alive—the archaic syntax, the outfits, the feelings—are the ones that haven’t survived into the present day or that the writer made up.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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While that edict seems antiquated with the realities of the House settlement, the settlement doesn’t nullify or supersede appellate precedent.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 June 2026
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At the outset, the tech companies operated in a legal space that the country’s antiquated commercial code had not yet mapped.—
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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This legendary experiment in medieval aviation comes to us via 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury in an account written circa 1125, although William neglected to provide future historians with an exact date for the feat.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
14 June 2026
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The landscape is so wild and the little medieval towns along the way so unspoiled that the two-hour journey seems to take you back in time.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
14 June 2026
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The Fyne Audio Cubitt 5 is the name given to a pair of state-of-the-art Bluetooth bookshelf speakers that make your humble superstore own brand setup seem like a prehistoric ear trumpet.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 June 2026
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The finding might indicate that prehistoric marine ecosystems featured a greater variety of predators and were far more complex than previously imagined.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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At first glance, the rusty sandstone rock formations of Arches National Park seem impossible.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Hillsides are colored a rusty red from desperate retardant drops.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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