diff --git a/src/communication/buildUrl.ts b/src/communication/buildUrl.ts
index 97f667f1..2191ee58 100644
--- a/src/communication/buildUrl.ts
+++ b/src/communication/buildUrl.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import { URLSearchParams } from 'url';
 
 import { apply, runIf } from 'ruply';
-import getEntries from '../plumbing/getEntries';
 import type Maybe from '../types/Maybe';
 
 export type SearchParameters = Record<string, any>;
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ export type SearchParameters = Record<string, any>;
  *    `?object[key]=value`).
  */
 export default function buildUrl(originAndPathname: string, searchParameters?: SearchParameters): string {
-  const searchEntries = (runIf(searchParameters, getEntries) ?? []) as [string, Maybe<string | number | string[] | number[] | Record<string, string | number>>][];
+  const searchEntries = (runIf(searchParameters, Object.entries) ?? []) as [string, Maybe<string | number | string[] | number[] | Record<string, string | number>>][];
   if (searchEntries.length == 0) {
     return originAndPathname;
   }
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ export default function buildUrl(originAndPathname: string, searchParameters?: S
           continue;
         }
         if (typeof value == 'object' && !Array.isArray(value)) {
-          for (const [innerKey, innerValue] of getEntries(value)) {
+          for (const [innerKey, innerValue] of Object.entries(value)) {
             flattenedEntries[`${key}[${innerKey}]`] = String(innerValue);
           }
         } /* if (typeof value != 'object' || Array.isArray(value)) */ else {
diff --git a/src/data/Helper.ts b/src/data/Helper.ts
index d0af7ab8..f03736f1 100644
--- a/src/data/Helper.ts
+++ b/src/data/Helper.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { inspect, type InspectOptionsStylized } from 'util';
 import type TransformingNetworkClient from '../communication/TransformingNetworkClient';
 import buildFromEntries from '../plumbing/buildFromEntries';
 import capitalize from '../plumbing/capitalize';
-import getEntries from '../plumbing/getEntries';
 import renege from '../plumbing/renege';
 import type Callback from '../types/Callback';
 import type Maybe from '../types/Maybe';
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ function convertToString(subject: Model<string>, tag: string, depth: number, opt
   if (depth < 0) {
     return options.stylize(`[${parts.join(' ')}]`, 'special');
   }
-  parts.push(inspect(buildFromEntries(getEntries<any>(subject).filter(([key]) => stringRepresentationBlacklist.has(key) === false)), { ...options, depth: 1, sorted: true }));
+  parts.push(inspect(buildFromEntries(Object.entries(subject).filter(([key]) => stringRepresentationBlacklist.has(key) === false)), { ...options, depth: 1, sorted: true }));
   return parts.join(' ');
 }
 
diff --git a/src/plumbing/getEntries.ts b/src/plumbing/getEntries.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 2583b1fb..00000000
--- a/src/plumbing/getEntries.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Returns an array of the passed object's own enumerable string-keyed property `[key, value]` pairs.
- *
- * If support for Node.js < 7.0.0 is ever dropped, this function can be removed in favour of `Object.entries`.
- */
-export default ((): (<T>(input: Record<string, T>) => [string, T][]) => {
-  if (Object.entries != undefined) {
-    return Object.entries;
-  }
-  return function getEntries<T>(input: Record<string, T>) {
-    return Object.keys(input).map(key => [key, input[key]]);
-  };
-})();