outdate
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Jenny said she was surprised at the age of the messages, which outdate various vintage crisp packets from the 1990s that she has found on beach cleans.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
National Parks and forests hold some of the last trees that outdate Western society.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
For their part, moles, solitary underground creatures with giant paws for digging, outdate even the oldest kings of France.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2012
At Bell Labs, systems engineers spend years checking research developments against rival theories and the existing mechanisms they will outdate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was well aware that the inventor might be on the verge of new inventions that would outdate the "Pollard," and he wanted to keep anything new for himself.
From The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts by Victor G. Durham
Older data centers did rely heavily on evaporative cooling, much like an outdated car relied on a carburetor.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The government has insisted it needs to reform the "outdated" council funding system to move money to where it is most needed.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Rita thought it was ugly and outdated, so she’d covered it with greenery.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
At Friday's session, US deputy ambassador Jeffrey Bartos said the existing embargo was "outdated" and "insufficient to address the realities of the war today".
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the next ten minutes, I managed to anger or amuse most of them, or so it seemed, by trying to enforce my hopelessly outdated porter list.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Rapid developments in theology compounded the problem, often outdating books before they appeared.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A speech and scene like this bear witness to an author and actor outdating and outranking both scene and speech.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee