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
Andrei Soldatov, a London-based expert on Russian security services, said the Western toolbox was outdated.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
"The whole case for Heathrow expansion relies on outdated evidence that fails to take into account the urgent challenges we face today," Sir Sadiq said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Last year, Mullin’s predecessor, Kristi Noem, purchased two new Gulfstream 700 luxury jets for the secretary’s use after the department said the planes being used to ferry the secretary around the country were dangerously outdated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Social Security’s full retirement age dictates when beneficiaries get 100% of what they’re owed in benefits, but the current rule has become outdated now that many Americans are living longer, experts said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
And then on the afternoon that Willow Chance came to see him, all of his categorization ground to a halt, like a fork thrown into the gears of outdated machinery.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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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