deprecated

past tense of deprecate
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Recent Examples of deprecated 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 Apple has deprecated Launchpad in macOS 26 and replaced it with the Apps launcher in the Dock. Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deprecated
Verb
  • The Chiefs are back, just as quickly as they were dismissed, and that’s in more than ways than post-game one-liners exuding some confidence after a convincing 30-17 win against the red-hot Lions.
    Sam McDowell October 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And these cases may very well be dismissed on that basis.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And this was disliked by intellectuals.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • HOAs are disliked by some residents.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That risk includes the fact that the role required a dramatic physical transformation—involving facial prosthetics to better resemble Kerr, which could’ve diminished his usual appeal.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In some cases, immunity from prior vaccination may have diminished over time, leaving them more susceptible if vaccine coverage falls and infections spread more widely.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Hostages and Missing Families Forum criticized Hamas earlier in the day for releasing only four of the 28 confirmed deceased hostages, calling it a breach of the agreement.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And while the council does have the power to reject commissioners, Jenkins’ move was scathingly criticized by the Coalition for Police Accountability, an advocacy group that first lobbied to establish the oversight body.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The prosecutor said Combs and his lawyers have minimized the violence tied to his conviction.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Gonzalez, the former National Security Council official, said senior policymakers thought that embassy staff were showing favoritism to Bukele, sending reports that minimized the growing crisis of democracy in El Salvador.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Much of the derision was coming from the performers’ contemporaries — some of whom had rejected the invite on moral and political grounds, but many who were not actually invited to perform.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Some 88 percent of mice rejected pancreatic cancer, 75 percent of mice did for breast cancer and 69 percent rejected melanoma tumors.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Many older Rivian vehicles have depreciated significantly, based on used model pricing.
    Charles Singh, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Their infidelities have left the people of 2119 trapped between loving the expansive then and the depreciated now.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Deprecated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprecated. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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