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as in dismissed
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 disliked
to hold an unfavorable opinion of
deprecates TV sitcoms as childish and simpleminded
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Recent Examples of deprecated
On a year-to-date basis, the currency has deprecated over 8% against the greenback.
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Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
9 June 2026
So, when a model is deprecated or updated, the abstraction layer routes to the replacement without rewriting prompts or retraining workflows.
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Alberto Gimeno,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Once the new models go live, earlier versions will be deprecated.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Nov. 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
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
9 June 2026
So, when a model is deprecated or updated, the abstraction layer routes to the replacement without rewriting prompts or retraining workflows.
—
Alberto Gimeno,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Once the new models go live, earlier versions will be deprecated.
—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Nov. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deprecated
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If he was dismissed without cause, his contract provides for a minimum 12-month payout.
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After earlier false rumors involving tsunami threats and the collapse of major transportation links, Rodríguez dismissed new viral claims about infrastructure failures, urging the public to rely exclusively on official sources.
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Almost everything that my sister disliked about the paper route was something that appealed to me.
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For all the prior cinematic depictions of storming bunkers and camaraderie under fire, Pressure offers us the quiet heroism of rational restraint in the figure of James Stagg, who weathered his inner storms and bore the courage to be disliked.
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Trump’s critics, especially in Israel, worry that the agreement effectively allows Iran to repair a proxy force diminished by months of Israeli pummeling.
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Alannah’s presence on Season 8 of Love Island USA was heavily diminished following her first appearance.
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Greenspan was also criticized for enacting policies that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the recession at the end of the 2000s.
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The Federal Reserve’s steadfast period of low interest rates in the 2000s was criticized as contributing to a housing bubble in the 2000s, followed by the mortgage crisis of 2007 and the Great Recession the following year.
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These behaviors are often minimized as personality quirks or generational differences.
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Highlight details are more vivid and color bleeding is minimized.
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Indigenous groups protested the last time Mount Rushmore hosted a fireworks display, and former President Joe Biden's administration rejected subsequent attempts to have fireworks at the national monument.
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Judge Sullivan rejected the DOJ's arguments against releasing the materials and concluded that the Public Integrity Project, a public interest law firm, demonstrated that independent journalist Katie Phang was harmed by the materials being withheld.
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Moreover, while the greenback has held strong amid the ongoing Middle East conflict, many Asian currencies like the Indian rupee and Philippine peso have significantly depreciated.
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Summerville isn’t so easy to make a big profit on this time, but two years at the London Stadium have chipped away at the bill for him, and no player’s value ever depreciated after a promising World Cup.
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“Deprecated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprecated. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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