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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While the teacher continued on talking, updating her on her daughter’s progress, Goh’s mind was elsewhere.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025 -
Alongside this, the company is also updating its existing P7+ battery-electric versions in the Chinese market.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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The new editor is also giving the magazine a facelift, redesigning its logo and drawing visual inspiration from its archives.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Key changes include redesigning the Stadium Interchange into a diverging diamond and rebuilding the Hawley Road interchange.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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The airlines trade group pointed to a joint letter it and other aviation groups sent to Congress in February calling for unity in support of modernizing the ATC system.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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According to a 62-page transition plan authored by Isaacman and obtained by Bloomberg, his vision for NASA is ambitious—reinvigorating lunar missions, expanding partnerships with academic institutions and the private sector, and streamlining internal bureaucracy.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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His administration has committed to pulling back on AI regulations and streamlining permitting for new data centers and energy infrastructure.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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So my attention was taken up with wiping off the counter and the tiles, and remaking the coffee.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Upgrades on the century-old building will include pedestrian and landscaping improvements, a new event space and remaking a full-service restaurant space.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Contemporizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporizing. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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