outdated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is that the school, next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base, could have been hit as a result of outdated intelligence.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

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require significant time, resources, and careful experimentation, and meaningful scientific questions do not become outdated so quickly.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It has run various projects to digitize and share the archives publicly before, which have resulted in incomplete, outdated and user-unfriendly databases, but still says it wants to do it itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Turner described their partnership as: “Republican and Democrat team up to fight outdated software for elections. Oh, my!”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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that Willow Chance came to see him, all of his categorization ground to a halt, like a fork thrown into the gears of outdated machinery.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