How to Use outmode in a Sentence

outmode

verb
  • His conclusion was that the idea of a newspaper-only business was outmoded.
    — Alan Deutschman, WIRED, 1 June 1995
  • The building had been outmoded for most warehouse uses since the 1990s, Kim said.
    — Irv Leavitt, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Made of steel and wood some 90 years ago, the gates are beyond repair and outmoded, the GBRA says.
    — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2019
  • That raises the possibility that the expensive investment for the kitchen could be outmoded within a few years.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Officials said the antiquated station no longer met the needs of modern firefighting and that its building systems were outmoded.
    — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Williams traces the history of mass schooling, and argues that the practice is outmoded; this talk and others put on by the organizers may offer themselves as worthy alternatives.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • There are those who argue the Second Amendment is outmoded, written with an 18th-century citizen militia in mind.
    — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • College officials say the existing greenhouse is outmoded, its current east-to-west orientation less beneficial than the coming north-to-south structures that will get the most out of sun exposure.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, the old hard partying Bobby Layne/Joe Namath model is probably outmoded now by the complexity of pro football.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Even the executive orders that have had economic implications have been more about direction than concrete actions, such as an order to find and eliminate regulations that may be outmoded.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
  • The concept, called universal basic income, has a long history but is resurfacing lately as technology threatens to outmode workers in an ever-diversifying range of jobs.
    — Alana Abramson, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In a report last year, the American Society of Civil Engineers said that public spending is running far short of what’s needed to replace water and wastewater systems that will be outmoded by 2025.
    — Washington Post, 8 May 2017

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