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deprecated

verb

past tense of deprecate
1
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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2
as in disliked
to hold an unfavorable opinion of deprecates TV sitcoms as childish and simpleminded

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Recent Examples of deprecated Then a contract renewal arrived, or a model got deprecated, or a competitor shipped something better. — Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 On a year-to-date basis, the currency has deprecated over 8% against the greenback. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 June 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
  1. dismissed
  2. disliked
  3. diminished
  4. criticized
  5. minimized
  6. rejected
  7. depreciated
Verb
  • Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in several criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • One of them, dismissed Sooners quarterback Chris Robison, was the MVP of the 2019 Conference USA championship, Kiffin’s second league title in three seasons.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of dismissed
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  • Also, who exactly was mysterious creative adviser and new-ending generator Rospo Pallenberg, besides being roundly disliked?
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Element had a deal to merge with Solstice Advanced Materials , but both shareholder bases disliked the idea, so the companies terminated it last week.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of disliked
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  • With one franchise leader gone and another diminished, a Red Wings era — and arguably multiple eras — has ended.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • If one leaves, the other, diminished in solitude, cannot long survive alone.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of diminished
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  • Vance also criticized border policy under former President Joe Biden while praising deportations.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The report was heavily criticized for failing to assign blame or identify specific evacuation failures, but officials have said that wasn’t the goal of the McChrystal Group review.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of criticized
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  • And dust coming into the system should be minimized, which should be beneficial for long-term use.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2026
  • However, the potential impact of the agreement between states and Meta should not be minimized.
    — Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of minimized
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  • This strategy also helps employers get to know phenomenal candidates whose applications are going to accidentally be rejected by the ATS and AI systems.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The Alliance rejected accusations of greenwashing at the time, saying its mandate was to identify scalable collection, sorting and recycling solutions and that projects operating at the edge of commercial viability would not all succeed.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of rejected
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  • Since the beginning of the year, the rupiah has depreciated by more than 7%, while rising oil prices and expectations of further US Federal Reserve interest rate hikes have added pressure on emerging markets.
    — , CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
  • As for how the yen depreciated, Japan's comparatively low interest rates have remained a key factor weighing on the currency.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 3 Aug. 2026
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“Deprecated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprecated. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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