as in updating
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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Soto-Martínez said his biggest accomplishments include raising the minimum wage to $30 for tourism workers, updating the rent stabilization ordinance for the first time in 40 years and growing his district’s rapid response network to combat federal immigration raids.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026 -
Starting this December, American men between the ages of 18 and 25 will be automatically registered into the military draft pool, updating an already existing process that depended on individuals to register themselves.—
Emily Guskin,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
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In one case, while redesigning a ribosomal protein called RpsJ, the AI remodeled an alpha helix—a structural element bridging different parts of the ribosome—and introduced eight new nearby mutations to compensate for the substitution of just two isoleucines.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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Beyond immediate risks, broader questions remain about how far humans should go in redesigning life and what unintended consequences such changes could have for ecosystems.—
André O. Hudson,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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City officials say the program is aimed at improving safety and modernizing how red-light violations are handled.—
Charlie Lapastora,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Until companies do the hard, expensive, unsexy work of cleaning up their data and modernizing their access controls, agents will keep hitting walls.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Blackstreet Capital Management focused on buying companies on the brink of financial collapse, injecting them with short-term cash, slashing costs and streamlining operations before flipping them to bigger firms at a profit.—
Kenny Jacoby,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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While mixtures of two or three metals were messy and unstable, the five-metal combination paradoxically self-organized into a single, uniform product, streamlining 31 possible chemical outcomes into a single, precise nanocrystal.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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Zadik Zadikian’s project, The Studio, turns a 5,000-square-foot space inside the Arsenale into a working studio, where Zadikian and his assistants will spend the six months of the Biennale’s run making and remaking sculptures in front of visitors.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
4 May 2026
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Kansas is a blue blood remaking its roster after an underwhelming season.—
Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Contemporizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporizing. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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