obsolete
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In another industry, a project left in development this long might be considered obsolete.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
In his view, coding is not an obsolete skill -- AI has simply made it available to more people.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
Yet even he wasn’t ready to call the dealer system obsolete.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
What engrossed him and his team was the Alto’s graphical display, which was destined to make the text-only displays of contemporary computers obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
By 1951, the Propeller Research Tunnel was declared obsolete and demolished, and the engineers that had staffed it were left to find a new specialty or retire.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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