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outdatable en · ADJ

Etymology

From outdate + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of becoming outdated.
   • Even then, the program could send out requests for proposals on an ongoing basis to avoid overcommitment to outdatable technology. 1996, Robin B. Peek, Scholarly Publishing: the Electronic Frontier:
   • […]statements about the particular form of dialectical processes and structures result depending directly on the respective state of the development of science and are consequently also quite clearly provisional and outdatable. 2020, Engels @ 200 - Reading Friedrich Engels in the 21st Century:
   • The question, then, of literature and the matter of fact (in both senses) is a simple though not an easy one, an ancient though not an outdatable one. Are works of literature affected if the facts they proffer as facts are not facts, and demonstrably so? 1996, Christopher B. Ricks, Essays in Appreciation:

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