obsolete
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Pensions in the private sector have become almost obsolete, and Americans are struggling to cover everyday expenses, let alone save enough money for their old age.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
VHS went obsolete and “Rad” wasn’t released on DVD, leaving fans scavenging for bootlegged copies and former rentals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
After all, AI will either become the savior of humanity or make humans obsolete, depending on what day of the week it is.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Everything I thought I wanted to say about war in ‘Devil’s Backbone’ seemed obsolete, because we had gone through 9/11 and the world had changed,” Del Toro recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labors another Floating Fortress is built.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Some will claim that a digital, electronic world has obsoleted written communication.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020
Sometimes it’s a matter of the rules simply being obsoleted and needing to be upgraded, as in the case of self-driving cars, and in most cases the evolution is going smoothly.
From Forbes ● Jan. 3, 2014
"McDonald's got obsoleted on their food," says Malcolm M. Knapp, a food-industry consultant based in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
That have I done," replied the Statistician, "because the facts have obsoleted the law.
From The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey
Sometimes applied to planes obsoleted by the air service.
From Aces Up by Covington Clarke
“Earlier in 2026, fears around AI disrupting — or even obsoleting — software business models dominated the narrative,” he noted, with the chart above highlighting software stocks that have “managed to claw back losses.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
Frequently when a change is made to some RFC that causes a new one to be issued obsoleting others, the new RFC only contains explanations and motivations for the change.
From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet by Ed Krol
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