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But the Sanitation Department wants to modernize New York’s outdated trash system—can it?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He said the chimes only played for a few seconds at a time and questioned weather the 19:00 rule should be reviewed, branding it "outdated".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some of the U.S. intelligence fed to the system was outdated, not accounting for the presence of the school.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
I don’t have much time for the Count Binfaces of this world, not because they’re weird, but because their particular kind of oddity has an outdated, cringe-inducing, dad-joke mustiness to it.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
But Winnie was adamantly opposed, thinking it unhealthy and outdated, and instead smeared Zenani with olive oil, plastered her little body with Johnson’s Baby Powder, and filled her stomach with shark oil.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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