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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obsolete.

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Examples

  • In the end, my best option seemed to involve joining the 360,000 obsoletes buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.

    Ponying Up for Forever Anne Kadet 2012

  • "The market works, and when it works, it commodifies or obsoletes everything."

    The Future Of Facebook 2010

  • This is great for making funny mashups, etc, but to me it's true potential lies in the fact that it obsoletes forever the aggravating hunt through the related links for the next part of a multipart youtube.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • That is, the free trade of information between peoples, and open access to knowledge across geographic borders, obsoletes the necessity of political borders and thereby decreases the probability that armies will cross them.

    Michael Shermer: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted 2009

  • That is, the free trade of products between peoples, and open access to services across geographic borders, obsoletes the necessity of political borders and thereby decreases the probability that armies will cross them.

    Michael Shermer: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted 2009

  • In fact I feel that copy protection which prevents a purchaser from continuing to use something they have purchased when the technology obsoletes it is depriving the purchaser of their rights.

    Steal This Movie! Steven Barnes 2009

  • (WIN's "comments on ads" came 18 months after our experiment; like us, WIN discovered that mutating ad creative (at least from smart advertisers) fast obsoletes each comment) ..

    The Jason Jordan BBall Game of BlogAds Allure. Ben Barren 2007

  • Contaminated sites and obsoletes stocks present serious problems for Africa and require immediate actions.

    Chemical use in Africa~ management and responses 2008

  • But I know from my time in newspaper online sites that syndication is a dying business as newspapers cut back all the costs they can and as the web link pretty much obsoletes the model: Why buy the content when people can get it to already online?

    Reverse syndication « BuzzMachine 2008

  • • Each new wave of guidelines obsoletes existing equipment;

    Voting Machine Certification a Giant Ponzi Scheme 2007

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