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outdate

[aut-dayt] / ˌaʊtˈdeɪt /


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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

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

It is maintaining these outdated financial thresholds while broadening the definition of an accredited investor to include anyone holding specific finance-related credentials, like a CPA or a CFA, regardless of their financial resources.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The train system is "old and creaky and it's outdated," he admitted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

"In view of the current disaster, the law is outdated," says constitutional law expert, Bipin Adhikari.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

That could involve replacing an image-heavy webpage with one emphasizing descriptive text, or tracking down outdated pricing information and getting it updated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated I was living with my head in the sand.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Rapid developments in theology compounded the problem, often outdating books before they appeared.

From Time Magazine Archive

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


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