obsolete
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"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
Audiences making their way to the Academy’s VistaVision series will be stepping back in time, seeing movies in a way that has been all but obsolete for some 65 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The once-familiar picture of a war fought with infantry at the front and dog-fights in the air has become increasingly obsolete.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
AI monopolies is obsolete, if it was ever justified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He argues that modern war is becoming obsolete, leaving primitive, undisciplined warfare as the major kind of war remaining in the world today.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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