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as in to dismiss
to express scornfully one's low opinion of
movie critics tried to outdo one another in deprecating the comedy as the stupidest movie of the year
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as in to dislike
to hold an unfavorable opinion of
deprecates TV sitcoms as childish and simpleminded
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Recent Examples of deprecate
Once the new models go live, earlier versions will be deprecated.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Nov. 2025
Back in May, Mark Cuban appeared in his last episode of ABC’s Shark Tank after spending more than a decade on the show investing in—or deprecating—entrepreneurs’ big ideas.
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Katie Drummond,
Wired News,
14 Oct. 2025
The 45-year-old actor has always projected a sort of likable, hunky lunkhead persona, giving the movies their equivalent of the campus jock that secretly had a sly sense of self-deprecating humor and theater-department chops.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
Microsoft’s first Kerberos implementation protects a password from cracking attacks by representing it as a hash generated with a single iteration of Microsoft’s NTLM cryptographic hash function, which itself is a modification of the super-fast, and now deprecated, MD4 hash function.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Nov. 2025
Back in May, Mark Cuban appeared in his last episode of ABC’s Shark Tank after spending more than a decade on the show investing in—or deprecating—entrepreneurs’ big ideas.
—
Katie Drummond,
Wired News,
14 Oct. 2025
The 45-year-old actor has always projected a sort of likable, hunky lunkhead persona, giving the movies their equivalent of the campus jock that secretly had a sly sense of self-deprecating humor and theater-department chops.
—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
Microsoft’s first Kerberos implementation protects a password from cracking attacks by representing it as a hash generated with a single iteration of Microsoft’s NTLM cryptographic hash function, which itself is a modification of the super-fast, and now deprecated, MD4 hash function.
—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deprecate
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The firms asked the judge to dismiss the case Wednesday, arguing Uber had failed to prove fraud.
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Delta denied this in its legal response, seeking to dismiss the case.
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Others disliked how visible Gabriel Vasconcelos' tongue was outside of his mouth while kissing.
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The financial statements were not clean, the market disliked the company, shareholders were selling for reasons unrelated to value, and management was changing.
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While the Texatron is designed as an aneutronic fusion system intended to minimize neutron production, the company says monitoring neutron emissions will help verify radiation characteristics and overall system performance.
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This significantly minimizes cybersecurity risks by decreasing the number of outside players that may have access to the data through cloud or hardware infrastructure.
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The program posed a massive political problem for Mamdani, who’s been criticized by both his allies and opponents for his stance.
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While state studies have criticized the state’s education governance model, voters have rejected at least four attempts dating back to 1928 to reform the position.
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Historically, after that period, the chances of survival without a water source diminish rapidly.
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Prolonged exposure to heat can lead to insufficient or poor sleep, compromising the immune system, increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease and diminishing cognitive performance.
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Those seeking to stop the roundup reject almost all of the federal agencies’ claims, from the size of the herd to the notion that the horses cause ecological damage.
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While state studies have criticized the state’s education governance model, voters have rejected at least four attempts dating back to 1928 to reform the position.
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“Deprecate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprecate. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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