contemporized

verb

past tense of contemporize
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 When Aretha Franklin’s career stalled in later years, Davis contemporized her style. — Jason Kravarik, CNN Money, 22 June 2026 Bestselling classic Banana styles of the past are being reimagined and contemporized. — 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
  1. redesigned
  2. updated
  3. modernized
  4. streamlined
  5. remade
Verb
  • Craig Federighi, senior VP of Software Engineering, said that Apple had redesigned much of its iOS software to take advantage of the two screens, moving buttons and other controls.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The AirPods 5 are redesigned with a new acoustic architecture, upgrades to adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC) with 50 percent better noise reduction than the AirPods 4, and improved sound.
    — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of redesigned
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  • The world’s largest givers This week, Bridgespan also updated its rankings of the world’s largest corporate and institutional givers, based on average annual giving between 2020 and 2024.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The institute does not have updated statistics, said Jon Solomon, research director of the Aspen Institute Sports and Society Program, but high costs continue to be an issue.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of updated
Verb
  • To fix this, the infrastructure must be modernized to allow health systems to build scalable cell and gene therapies.
    — Jigar Thakkar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The state’s sawmill in Portland, which was recently modernized, produces materials used for state projects — including trail bridges, picnic tables in state parks, facility signage and building components — that are all locally sourced.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of modernized
Verb
  • In 2018, the nonprofit also streamlined its donations from around 100 food banks and food pantries to 12 central agencies — like Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, Yolo Food Bank and Feeding the Foothills, said Operations Manager Zoe Edwards.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Daniel West’s adaptation hits the major plot points and select lines of dialogue, but has typically, unavoidably, been streamlined and compressed.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of streamlined
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of remade

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“Contemporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporized. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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