obsolete
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Sometimes a talent comes along that renders old paradigms obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
If you splash out on a new humanoid now it is likely to soon be obsolete.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
What’s different now is that AI threatens to make human workers themselves obsolete in virtually every sector of the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
"But underneath there are a lot of core elements like pay, worker protection, individual workers' rights, also dismissal protection... that would be rendered obsolete in a sense," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
They were obsolete, last year’s weather, but Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
He wondered if Gud had been unethical and double-crossed him with a spurious revelation, getting out another one later with utterly different beliefs and morals, so that the doubts and temptations were thus all obsoleted.
From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold
Sometimes applied to planes obsoleted by the air service.
From Aces Up by Clarke, Covington
“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 Krol, Ed
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