obsolete
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After observing a shrinking number of stocks driving the stock market’s recent gains, Joseph Adinolfi considered the notion that the old buy-and-hold investing philosophy has become obsolete.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
“The expertise you have today may be obsolete tomorrow.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The effort comes after legendary music mogul Jimmy Iovine said music streaming services were "minutes away from being obsolete", because they don't foster a connection between the listener and the music.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The aqueduct seemed to make the city’s founding river not just obsolete but dangerous, so construction began on catch basins, dams and reservoirs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The store doesn't exist anymore, but back in the nineties, you could go there to develop photos and rent movies—two activities that are obsolete today, hence its disappearance.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
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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