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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The question is whether the audience and the rest of the country would be better served if more energy devoted to political fights were spent on the less glamorous, but far more consequential, task of updating communications law for the world that actually exists.—
Jay Caruso,
The Washington Examiner,
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The secretary of state job is administrative, Potter said, and she’s dedicated to updating and modernizing the office.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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The state is now in the process of redesigning a new system that will rely on two statewide 911 providers, one to act as a primary provider and another as backup.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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Mazda could’ve solved its infotainment system issues by simply moving the screens closer to the front-seat occupants, enabling touch functionality throughout the system, and redesigning the native interface to be more modern.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tasked with maintaining and modernizing the grid and accelerating the transition to renewables, LUMA has overseen a system in which only about 7% of electricity comes from clean sources, even as outages and rates have increased.—
Israel Melendez Ayala,
Time,
28 Feb. 2026
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In a world that’s modernizing faster than most of us can keep up, things at Knaus have remained delightfully old-fashioned.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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The administration also created an Office of Immigration Policy in the Labor Department to help employers with workforce needs, including streamlining the visa processes for temporary workers, the White House said.—
Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC news,
24 Feb. 2026
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Funding through the bill could potentially allow the city of Pasadena to provide supplies like dog crates directly to the aid group, streamlining the response.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Many Cubans remain fiercely nationalistic and are not likely to accept any deal that requires them to surrender their national sovereignty by remaking their political or economic system to please the United States.—
William M. LeoGrande,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement The West and China are filling AI gaps and remaking some of the most complex and global supply chains in history into more resilient assets in the process.—
Jared Cohen,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Contemporizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporizing. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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