as in redesigned
to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage
the new owners of the old-line French restaurant plan to contemporize the menu and make the place seem less intimidating
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Recent Examples of contemporized
Anderson has contemporized the timeline, situating us in our dismayingly recognizable era of fascist creep and following a sadly less recognizable underground effort to stop it.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemporized
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In being converted into a hotel, the Renaissance-style mansion has been redesigned brick to brick, its interiors filled with a myriad decorative flourishes.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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Accessibility The hotel has four wheelchair-accessible guest rooms and all the public spaces were redesigned to be fully accessible.—
Laura Itzkowitz,
AFAR Media,
30 Jan. 2026
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This story has been updated with additional information.—
Amanda Davies,
CNN Money,
12 Feb. 2026
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This story was updated to add a map of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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The code needs to be modernized to reflect current times.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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This 75-year-old classic from Italian design magazine Domus modernized Italian home cooking and became an essential title on many shelves.—
Jamila Robinson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Feb. 2026
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Purchasing and approvals have reportedly been streamlined so agreements do not meaningfully burden either board with robust, independent review.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
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To keep our list streamlined, all of the mattress prices reflect queen sizes.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
6 Feb. 2026
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In Sunny Isles Beach, another town that’s been remade by major development projects, the Bentley Residences tower is expected to be completed this year.—
Catherine Odom,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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Of course, there are only so many bad movies that are ripe to be remade; only so many movies that are famous enough to feel like safe investments, but also flawed enough to guarantee that Hollywood executives will feel like creative geniuses for improving upon them.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 Nov. 2025
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“Contemporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporized. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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