How to Use vaporware in a Sentence
vaporware
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Health tech gadgets tend to end up as vaporware, and this isn’t even the first time a smart menstrual cup has been pitched.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2023
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Questions like these are the stuff of vaporware legends.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2022
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After all, Google chose to showcase the Pixel Tablet, which is vaporware at best right now.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 26 May 2022
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Announcing a phone like this a year in advance is a strange move, and doing so gives the whole endeavor a whiff of vaporware.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019
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It’s time for a dive into the world of Russian military vaporware.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2022
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There's one final thing Atari insisted the VCS is not: vaporware.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
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Wall Street dismissed it as yet another piece of Musk vaporware.
—Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
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Truthfully, the ride-along didn’t inspire much confidence that Faraday or its FF91 will be more than vaporware, at least in the near future.
—Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2022
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Regardless, none of these products should end up as vaporware.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2022
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Most, if not all of the missiles are still under development or, like the mystery ICBM, are what might be considered vaporware.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2017
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Mark Spiegel call him a fraud as a result, and criticize prototypes as little more than pretty vaporware that will never make it to market.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
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The vaporware summit was a return to an earlier model of Sino-American relations: The two nations play nice and pretend one isn’t at the other’s throat.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Nov. 2021
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Now, Russia’s state media often makes sweeping claims about the state of the country’s defense industry, and many developments often go the way of vaporware.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2021
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The vaunted mission modules often turned out to be vaporware, and even after more than ten years of development, few if any actually deployed to the fleet.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2017
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Of course, Trump is famous for issuing legal vaporware, and the general counsels of the big media companies won’t be quaking in their Manolos.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
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The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is vaporware no more.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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But amazingly the hat does not appear to be vaporware, as one YouTube user has posted an unboxing video complete with audio playback.
—John Patrick Pullen, Fortune, 21 July 2017
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Russia’s most modern tank, the vaporware T-14 Armata main battle tank, uses a new system known as Afghanit.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2021
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So this another example of overblown Russian military vaporware or is there something more to it?
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
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—Aaron Jansen, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 July 2017
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This year's event featured future vaporware like a giant combat walker robot and other concepts far off into the future, such as chameleon camouflage.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2018
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In positioning itself as the great Tesla disrupter, Lucid Motors made performance claims for its debut-model Air that seemed destined for the vaporware ether.
—Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2022
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In a presentation to more than 3 billion users in October, Meta largely showed vaporware: software and experiences that do not yet exist.
—Scott Nover, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2021
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This story, of new Russian fighting vehicles introduced with great fanfare and turning into vaporware, has been repeated over and over again in recent years.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
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Moreover, some of the Trump administration plans that seemed to point toward higher inflation and higher interest rates are looking like vaporware.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
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Often, demoware becomes vaporware, announced for shock and awe in order to discourage competitors, but never released at all.
—Gary Marcus, Scientific American, 6 June 2022
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With its dramatic, swoopy curves, aggressive front splitter and imposing rear wing, the 21C could, at first glance, be dismissed as yet another piece of vaporware from a boutique car maker selling a pipe dream to eager collectors.
—Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2022
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In the midst of a crypto-gold rush that has bred widespread scams, wild overvaluations, and sketchy vaporware, LO3’s blockchain application is one that, at least in theory, makes sense both technically and philosophically.
—David Z. Morris, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2017
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The venture-capital and tech worlds, awash in easy money, developed a culture of selling narratives and vaporware—lofty and sometimes fantastical ideas, with no clear path to implementation.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
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In the auto industry, Musk’s production assertions are viewed as the manufacturing equivalent of vaporware—an advance that is promised but has very little chance of becoming a reality.
—Jeffrey Rothfeder, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
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