API lifecycle management has a specialised vocabulary. Deprecate the endpoint, maintain backward compatibility, and sunset the old version are precise technical collocations — not interchangeable with generic synonyms. These exercises prepare you to communicate clearly in API governance and design contexts.
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The API team decided to ___ and give clients six months to migrate.
Deprecate the endpoint is the standard API lifecycle collocation. Deprecation is a formal signal that an endpoint is scheduled for removal but still functional. It precedes removal, giving clients time to migrate. 'Retire' and 'remove' imply the endpoint is already gone.
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Clients were notified that they must ___ before the end of the year to avoid service disruption.
Migrate to v2 is the professional API versioning collocation. 'Migrate' implies a deliberate, planned transition of integration code to the new version. 'Upgrade' is also used but typically refers to software rather than API client transitions.
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To support multiple client release cycles, the platform team decided to ___ using URL path prefixes.
Version the API is the standard collocation for the practice of assigning and managing version identifiers on an API. 'Version' used as a verb is well-established in API design documentation and RFC discussions.
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Any change to the existing schema must ___ to avoid breaking existing integrations.
Maintain backward compatibility is the canonical API design collocation. 'Maintain' implies ongoing discipline in preserving compatibility as the API evolves. All four options are grammatically valid, but 'maintain backward compatibility' is the most common in API design guides and RFCs.
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After three years of parallel support, the team was finally ready to ___ and remove associated infrastructure.
Sunset the old version is the professional product and API lifecycle collocation for formally ending support for a version. 'Sunset' implies a planned, communicated end-of-life process. 'Kill' is informal; 'end' and 'stop' lack the lifecycle management connotation.