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
Bestselling classic Banana styles of the past are being reimagined and contemporized.
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David Moin, Footwear News, 19 May 2026
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.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
At the 151-room W Budapest, a Neo-Renaissance building from 1886 once home to the Hungarian State Ballet Academy, lavish details like tiles and arches were preserved, yet are contemporized with such elements as sleek bronze cladding.
—Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024
David Moin, Footwear News, 19 May 2026
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.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
At the 151-room W Budapest, a Neo-Renaissance building from 1886 once home to the Hungarian State Ballet Academy, lavish details like tiles and arches were preserved, yet are contemporized with such elements as sleek bronze cladding.
—Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemporized
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In recent years, however, the number of students that needed to take the class exploded—from 32 in 2020 to 665 in 2025—and deficiencies have become so bad that the course had to be redesigned to cover middle school and even elementary level skills.—
Adam B. Summers,
Oc Register,
11 June 2026
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In 1976, the residence was redesigned as a retirement home for church missioners.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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Over the next five weeks the below list will be updated and informed by The Athletic’s new player ratings model, being launched for this summer’s tournament in North America, which will provide an objective assessment of each player’s contribution in a match.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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This story has been updated with additional reporting.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
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Companies have modernized identity systems, device management and cloud access, yet connectivity is still managed through local telecom contracts and physical SIM logistics.—
Dmitri Verbovski,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Over the past decade, China has modernized its navy by quickly adding new destroyers, frigates, amphibious assault ships, and aircraft carriers.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 May 2026
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Renwick effectively streamlined the fit for women’s bodies and needs while keeping all that effortlessness intact, and the public, quite literally, went wild.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
4 June 2026
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The company has since streamlined its operations, focusing on its coding product, Codex, and continues to invest in image generation and robotics.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 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 12 Jun. 2026.
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