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obsolete

[ob-suh-leet, ob-suh-leet] / ˌɒb səˈlit, ˈɒb səˌlit /


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Their images are disturbing, but not entirely scary; they don’t read like those of a horror film, but rather, a sight of some obsolete era of humanity.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Spexard says take-home assignments became so riddled with AI slop that they’re becoming obsolete and live assignments are now the way to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

"There is a way to work alongside AI and to use it as a tool that benefits us rather than rendering us obsolete," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Accelerators without Nvidia’s software became obsolete within a few years as models changed, she said, while Nvidia’s own A100 chips, shipped six years ago, are still fully in use.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

One day we may discover that some of our most cherished forms of knowledge are as obsolete as epicycles, phlogiston, caloric, the electromagnetic aether and, indeed, Newtonian physics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Sometimes applied to planes obsoleted by the air service.

From Aces Up by Covington Clarke

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 Harold Hersey

“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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