How to Use vaporware in a Sentence

vaporware

noun

• 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
• Questions like these are the stuff of vaporware legends.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2022
• After all, Google chose to showcase the Pixel Tablet, which is vaporware at best right now.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 May 2022
• 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
• It’s time for a dive into the world of Russian military vaporware.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2022
• There's one final thing Atari insisted the VCS is not: vaporware.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
• Wall Street dismissed it as yet another piece of Musk vaporware.
  — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Regardless, none of these products should end up as vaporware.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is vaporware no more.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024