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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
obsolesce .
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Examples
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As each plant obsolesces, the temptation is to build a new plant overseas, or to farm out that production to an overseas firm, who instead of paying $27+/hour is paying dollars a day.
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Rogers does an excellent job explaining and proving planned obsolesces — goods built with failure in mind.
Gone Tomorrow (Copy) ____Maggie 2006
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Rogers does an excellent job explaining and proving planned obsolesces — goods built with failure in mind.
Archive 2006-04-01 ____Maggie 2006
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JAMES BURGETT: The corporate motto is, obsolesces is a lack of imagination.
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Like all targets, well, all opportunity is you need to way in the changes in the technology marketplace that are happening and although it's an extremely rich environment, I remain cautious in ensuring that although an underlying target maybe attractive, it's fundamental underlying technology, shelf live maybe limited or said differently, it is a-- the factor obsolesces of the underlying technology is quickly diminishing, making it obsolete in the next 24 months or so.
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Now the benefit that we have is that, so long as the technology obsolesces doesn't implode or become reality in the 36 months or 48 month window, since our investment from a debt point-of-view makes it a great return.
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Death, with the Terminator machine death's head as the technological upgrade of Holbein's anamorphic skull - artificial intelligence as artificial death - not now reduced to a cuttlefish smear blotting the Symbolic, but looming to the fore in a landscape in which not only human beings but the Symbolic itself is close to total extinction, as asignifying data transfer obsolesces.
k-punk 2009
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The only way to uninstall patches back then was to installing a patch that obsolesces (the predecessor to supersedence) another patch, optionally carrying a file payload to avoid prompts for source to replace older files.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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And, just within the merchandise margin could you comment on your inventory obsolesces reserve and how that compares to last year?
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Well inventory obsolesces reserve, I'll deal with that one first, that's a consistent accounting practice based on age and obsolesce of inventory so nothing really changed in this quarter against our historic patterns.
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