contemporizes

Definition of contemporizesnext
present tense third-person singular of contemporize
as in updates
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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  • The mostly black interface displays key robot functions such as greetings, battery status, weather, sleep mode, and calendar updates while improving power efficiency by turning off unused pixels.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • Pethke has also been sharing updates himself during his recovery.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
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  • At the conclusion of every regular season, provided the Knicks make the playoffs, the organization redesigns the corridor leading from the home locker room to the Madison Square Garden hardwood floors.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This approach redesigns enterprise workflows to embed value, operationalize governance and harden the AI lifecycle, ensuring reliability over time.
    Ashwin Gaidhani, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
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  • As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
    James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
  • According to him, the goal is to build a system that modernizes the full lifecycle of a prescription from the moment it’s written to when the patient picks it up, and ideally beyond.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
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  • Tim Evans | Reuters UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday posted first-quarter earnings that topped estimates and hiked its 2026 profit outlook, as the company better manages high medical costs and streamlines its operations.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This change essentially streamlines an existing workflow.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Contemporizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporizes. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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