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Recent Examples of outmoded Would today’s investment be outmoded 12 months from now? Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025 The problem is worsened by the broken and outmoded state of the Oscars’ Best International Feature category, which lets foreign governments handpick their own submissions and launder their public images. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 June 2025 What all of this costs the networks and cable news outlets is surely sizable; what’s produced is beholden to the many limitations or traditions of TV news: outmoded news segment formats, restrictive standards. Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025 This year, old and already outmoded stereotypes have been turned on their heads. James Horncastle, New York Times, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for outmoded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outmoded
Adjective
  • But as obsolete as these pregnancy myths might have become, in some ways parents still need them.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Mastery of a particular model’s API or a set of prompting techniques can become obsolete in a matter of months.
    Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • As a result, the timeline for Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis — archaic humans who disappeared from Europe and Central Asia around 40,000 years ago and are known to have lived alongside the Denisovans — has also been shifted.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • As One of Us gleefully samples multiple registers—comic, tragic, satiric, elegiac, poetic—its mesh of archaic and contemporary styles becomes something quite arresting, a joy to read … Chaon’s beautiful novel insists on answers.
    Book Marks September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Large events might overwhelm its antiquated plumbing system.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The immigration agent didn’t know what to make of the antiquated document.
    Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bettany played English poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer in the medieval action-comedy, which starred Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, who forges a new identity for himself as a knight when his master dies.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The movie was set in medieval times, and blended action, comedy and modern pop culture.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Outmoded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outmoded. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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