dated
IPA: dˈeɪtɪd
adjective
- Marked with a date.
- Outdated.
- Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
- No longer fashionable.
- (obsolete) Alotted a span of days.
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Examples of "dated" in Sentences
- In a recent episode, the character Chris Griffin dated a girl with Down Syndrome.
- It was commonly believed that the word dated from the French occupation of Mexico (1862-1866).
- Our previous house dated from the mid-60s, and the wiring was not done by drugged gibbons (well, not that we know of) ... but by * stupid* gibbons.
- It was enough of a clue: even though the recordings originally issued on the Okeh label dated from 1928, Hoskins had a hunch that Hurt might still be alive, and headed to Mississippi.
- Their Tea Party is an all too familiar variant on Republican's long-time, poisonous, nativist strain easily carbon dated from the "Know Nothing" party that swelled their ranks 150 years ago.
- I may have dated boys here and there for short periods of times but we just dated and we both would go into the scenario that we were just dating, having fun, whatever but a “Relationship” that’s a whole other ball game kids
- I also saw, in the lumber-room, a number of packing-cases -- one with a label dated two days back -- which had been opened with an iron lever; and yet, when I made an excuse to ask for it, you said there was no such thing in the place.
- The term dated back at least to Black nationalist Malcolm X, who favored African American as more historically and culturally defining over other terms, and used it at an OAAU (Organization of Afro American Unity) meeting in the mid-1960s, saying, "Twenty-two million African Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America."
- I had heard he'd been killed shortly after graduating from high school in a knife fight at the last remaining whorehouse in our little hometown in Missouri, whose red light district dated from the 1860′s when Scott Joplin played ragtime for cowboys with money to burn after they'd been paid for driving cattle up from Texas on the Chisolm Trail.
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