Dated and Used

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Dated adjective - Having passed its time of use or usefulness.

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Used and dated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Used" instead an adjective "Dated".

Nearby Words: date, datable

Used adjective - Being in the habit or custom.

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Dated and used are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dated" instead an adjective "Used".

Nearby Words: use, useful

The former game was a poorly-received 3D RTS, while the latter game was better-received, but used a rather dated 2D sprite graphics engine at a time when nearly every other RTS series had gone 3D.

Source: Video Game / Empire at War
An archetype is a universal theme, story or character which is so fundamental that, regardless of how many times it is used (or misused), it never becomes stale, dated or Cliché.

Source: Archetype
Dated History: One of the vignettes about how Wormcam is used talks about a researcher finally solving the case of Otzi, a natural mummy found in the Italian alps.

Source: Literature / The Light Of Other Days

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