State of the art

The foregoing may be considered to present perhaps a very gloomy outlook both for the would-be inventor, the actual patentee, or for those having capital invested in a patent, since it is easy to see that it is quite impossible in the ordinary run of cases fully to ascertain beyond peradventure that the state of the art does not somewhere contain an instance of anticipation.

which is not only not advancing the state-of-the-art of management but also is believed to be regressing the state-of-the-art.

state-of-the-art technology

In other words, what I am saying is that when you plan to put into a future aircraft something that is state of the art you are putting in something as far advanced as present technology will allow and that is very much further advanced than things that are in present aircraft.

The components considered applicable to the design of a power train for a state-of-the-art electric vehicle are: Induction motor and 3-phase AC controller[…]

How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. […]

When the Cotillion arrived, we threw out the television Model D-575 has custom flute presets and Harmony Plus in addition Now for an arm and a leg we get three half-dozen beats to choose from So now we can pretend that there's an orchestra in the loungeroom […] State, state, state, state of the art (State of the art) Hold the phone, it's so state, state, state, state of the art (Computer-controlled tone color) State, state, state, state of the art (The marriage of music and computers is quite natural) Oh my God, it's so state, state, state, state of the art (It is time to hear the result)