adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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now
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The Croydon design used a vertical falling piston against a nozzle and is now obsolete .
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Newly made bombs would replace old, and now obsolete , weapons in the stockpile.
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Zab finds herself using the now obsolete narrative conventions of the memoir.
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But the editor's favourite word is now obsolete .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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obsolete technology
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a new type of 'Network Computer', which could make existing PCs obsolete within five years
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The old 5¼ inch floppy disks are now obsolete .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, new antitank missiles, particularly when used from helicopters, are making main battle tanks obsolete .
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In that time, the all-important double-team has been rendered obsolete .
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In the breeding tank there are none, so his function becomes obsolete .
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In the minds of many, the Falls were obsolete .
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It briefly considers the prospects for extending the operational life of obsolete systems through physical restoration as well as logical simulation.
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Therefore, the advice of the efficient-market believers to select randomly becomes itself obsolete if everyone takes the advice!
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Those entries which are not marked as obsolete constitute the active population of the archive.
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Weapons that would have been invincible twenty years before are now vulnerable and obsolete .