obsolete

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Burry seems to be assuming that each new generation of hardware obsoletes the previous one, but we have hard proof that that’s wrong.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

But Du Pont has been chary of monopoly, for it knows that any monopoly gets fat and lazy, obsoletes itself in time.

From Time Magazine Archive

On reaching the earthworks where our obsoletes are mounted, the townies will now fire a salute of blank, without falling down; and the Band have instructions to play 'There's Death in the Old Guns Yet.'

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

And here, strewn about, all dusty and disordered, were the precious antiques, and curios, and obsoletes, which to Oh-Oh were dear as the apple of his eye, or the memory of departed days.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

At the end of March, 1913, the force stood at 421 effective for war machines, plus an uncertain number of school machines and obsoletes.

From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various