Even more of a curiosity, however, is to find words that have gone utterly obsolete.
Square, run by billionaire Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, hopes to make cash registers obsolete.
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The project marks the latest attempt to repurpose large corporate headquarters that have grown obsolete.
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Technology made us more productive, but it also made a lot of good jobs obsolete.
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Regan called on scientists to develop something that would make ballistic missile impotent and obsolete.
Their work level grows by the month--and yet most of the equipment they use is obsolete.
In the not-too-distant future, he thinks new minimally invasive technologies will make the controversy obsolete.
That is, what you thought you knew about cloud computing is probably already obsolete .
The long-popular paired Keogh, which combines a profit-sharing plan and a money-purchase plan is now obsolete.
The intergovernmental model in which one currency is backed by 17 sovereign nations is surely obsolete.
Alas, technology marches on, and it may well be that laundry robots are already obsolete.
But those looking forward could see that market shifts had rendered both KMart and Sears obsolete.
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That would make now the perfect time to start making his own crown jewel obsolete.
Many traders have a go-to strategy and simply ride it until it becomes obsolete.
Based on my experience with the RX 350 F Sport, I declare the rotary controller obsolete.
Because electronic equipment is increasingly sophisticated, standard meters--and the people who read them--are becoming obsolete.
Though I was a great fan of Okun's, I'm afraid his law is obsolete.
Over the years, its value swelled, but the building's office space became increasingly obsolete.
With one half of the equation removed, their position, too, can only become obsolete.
Users will simply transition to another social media site which fulfills their requirements, rendering the former obsolete.
Of course, something like Wal-Mart would ruin that and 60% or more of incomes would become obsolete.
The company is also working on equipment to serve pure fiber systems, which would make DSL obsolete.
What is more, by the time they did make it into the dictionary, they were becoming obsolete.
This feature renders many traditional aspects of fantasy sports, such as trading players and free agency, obsolete.
When that happens, much of what we think we know about the Chinese economy--and China itself--could become obsolete.
In 2005, in fact, they found that 156, 000 bridges were structurally deficient or, as they said, functionally obsolete.
It remains to be seen whether the plummeting costs of gene sequencing will render expensive single-gene tests obsolete.
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We need to recognize the fact that our education system is NOT BROKEN but has simply become OBSOLETE.
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Newspapers are full of stories about how email, online bill-paying and other advances have rendered paper mail obsolete.
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Spotify has made no bones about its desire to make even the Apple iTunes model for digital music obsolete.
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