obsolete
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Obsolete equipment discarded by the International Space Station in 2020 re-entered the Earth's atmosphere causing the space junk to be seen burning over Northern California.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023
In the article — first reported earlier that week by Salon and titled "Women in Combat: Is the Current Policy Obsolete?"
From Salon • Jul. 13, 2020
Other books are named seemingly because the power of what they say about those who carry them around overcomes Wiener’s conceit: Are Prisons Obsolete?,
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2020
Obsolete now is the modernist rhetoric of revolution that hailed Pablo Picasso’s shattering of pictorial form, Jackson Pollock’s expansive drip technique, and Andy Warhol’s artisanal proliferation of demotic imagery.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2019
Obsolete cruisers filled with concrete were run aground and blown up in the harbors.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly
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