outdated

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One theory believed to be part of the investigation is that the school, next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base, could have been hit as a result of outdated intelligence.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

That case, the company said, “related to an engineer following inaccurate advice that an AI tool inferred from an outdated internal wiki,” and none involved “AI-written code.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

In reality, replication studies require significant time, resources, and careful experimentation, and meaningful scientific questions do not become outdated so quickly.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

“It’s an outdated concept to be using race as a proxy for how people are going to vote. It doesn’t hold up in real life.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Shall is one of the “living dead” discussed in the chapter on outdated rules, page 217.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner