Sentence examples for outmoded term from inspiring English sources

It was such an outmoded term, I just had to use it myself.

"Tribal art" is considered a pejorative and outmoded term by dealers and scholars.

Any outmoded term used to describe a current fascination invariably overstates the case, however.

For we are not talking about small, "voluntary" organisations ("voluntary sector" has long been an outmoded term for such agencies), but huge actors with lots of, well-trained staff and access to large amounts of funding.

Early classics of musique concrete include "Poeme Electronique," Iannis Xenakis's "Bohor" (also included in the festival), Luening's "Fantasy in Space" and Luc Ferrari's "Presque Rien" No. 1. Today, the ubiquity of samplers, which record natural sounds and play them back at the touch of a keyboard, renders "musique concrete" a quaint and outmoded term.

The general process has been known by many names: "co-option," "adoption from a different function," "recruitment" (mostly in reference to genes), or, in an outmoded term a little too suggestive of teleology, "preadaptation" (e.g., Gould and Vrba 1982; Arnold 1994; Thornhill and Ussery 2000; McLennan 2008).

In another scene, Broyard and Smith comically demonstrate how the human body would be carved up according to outmoded terms used to describe mixed-race people--octoroon, one-eighth black; quadroon, one-quarter black; and mulatto, one-half black.

There is no reason to resort to outmoded ways of dealing with these unknowns.

The wave of data breaches washing over enterprises around the world has surfaced an essential truth about IT security – typical enterprise security architectures are vastly outmoded in terms of how modern applications are shared, managed and accessed by users.

The frontman also said that he believed more established, wealthy artists would benefit most from Tidal, and suggested that the service was outmoded in terms of furthering the careers of independent acts.

Those outmoded legal terms mean that the FBI shouldn't be able to get actual content data such as Gmail messages or private YouTube videos.