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"Deprecate"

"Deprecate" means to officially retire a feature, tool, or piece of software so that it is no longer supported or maintained.

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How "Deprecate" shows up at work

Engineers use it to announce a feature's death with clinical distance. The word implies a thoughtful wind-down, which rarely matches the reality of something just quietly breaking one day.

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We plan to deprecate the v1 API endpoint by end of quarter.

Plain English

We plan to retire the v1 API endpoint by end of quarter.

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