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to change (something) in order to fit the needs or requirements of a person, business, etc.
The program can be customized to serve different purposes. customized the car with a unique paint job
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Recent Examples of customizes
Also, BrewID recognizes your K-Cup pod and then customizes the brew.
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Terri Williams,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
His company runs a network of after school learning centers where an adaptive AI tutoring system spots those cracks and customizes lessons in real time based on how each student responds.
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Time Contributors,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
The company, founded by Steve Glenn, customizes home designs with architects before their modular pieces are built in one of its factories.
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Amancai Biraben,
Daily News,
4 Mar. 2026
Vanguard generally starts with 3% to 5% in cash in a model portfolio, and customizes from there.
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Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
10 Dec. 2025
The sneakers were created in collaboration with footwear artist and designer Mache, who customizes sneakers for star athletes and celebrities and earned a place on FN’s 2025 Sneaker Power List.
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Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
10 Dec. 2025
The streaming app also customizes the Wrapped experience annually with various new interactive elements.
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Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
1 Dec. 2025
Demand may be hard to gauge ahead of time, but the more OpenAI customizes ChatGPT for tasks like shopping and schoolwork, the more people could use it for those activities.
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Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
United customizes its menus to offer some uniquely Australian touches including Chicken Parma, Vegemite Cheese Toasties, and Fairy Bread French Toast Triangles.
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Chris Dong,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Mar. 2023
Terri Williams,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
His company runs a network of after school learning centers where an adaptive AI tutoring system spots those cracks and customizes lessons in real time based on how each student responds.
—
Time Contributors,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
The company, founded by Steve Glenn, customizes home designs with architects before their modular pieces are built in one of its factories.
—
Amancai Biraben,
Daily News,
4 Mar. 2026
Vanguard generally starts with 3% to 5% in cash in a model portfolio, and customizes from there.
—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
10 Dec. 2025
The sneakers were created in collaboration with footwear artist and designer Mache, who customizes sneakers for star athletes and celebrities and earned a place on FN’s 2025 Sneaker Power List.
—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
10 Dec. 2025
The streaming app also customizes the Wrapped experience annually with various new interactive elements.
—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
1 Dec. 2025
Demand may be hard to gauge ahead of time, but the more OpenAI customizes ChatGPT for tasks like shopping and schoolwork, the more people could use it for those activities.
—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
United customizes its menus to offer some uniquely Australian touches including Chicken Parma, Vegemite Cheese Toasties, and Fairy Bread French Toast Triangles.
—
Chris Dong,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for customizes
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The screenplay, written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, adapts writer-director Cesc Gay's 2021 Spanish film Sentimental, which was itself based on Gay's 2016 play, Los vecinos de arriba (The People Upstairs).
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They’re made from a pillowy foam that adapts to the shape of your foot over time, offering custom support in all the right places.
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However, Craft House tailors its builds to suit owners' needs and there are lots of options available, including customizing its layout, selecting the building materials used, and even choosing full off-grid operation.
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While it may always be most readily associated with Wall Street antagonist Gordon Gekko—who Flusser famously outfitted—the business also tailors for women.
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Instead of catering to automobile traffic like typical intersection signal systems, Jung's invention adjusts crossing signal times based on the slowest pedestrian's pace.
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Its temperature sensor also monitors room temperature and adjusts airflow to ensure the home is never too hot or too cold.
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The company’s claim is that MST modifies the mechanical stress state of the silicon surface in a way that discourages dislocation nucleation and propagation during the subsequent GaN growth steps.
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This bill modifies the sales-in-error regulations to create a new category for any current outstanding certificates to be automatically declared in error, meaning those sales will be reversed, tax buyers will be refunded and the process will restart under the new statute.
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AerAware departs from traditional head-up displays and instead equips both pilots with a dual wearable system that delivers the same information to each cockpit seat.
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Whether your 9-to-5 job involves a rare combination of manual record keeping and precarious wilderness travel, or your idea of outdoor recreation includes journaling your day while remaining at the ready for whatever nature hurls at you, the all-new Pen-metheus equips you for it all.
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The higher water content alters the texture, and most baking recipes are formulated assuming a higher percentage of fat.
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According to the brokerage, a handful of outsized transactions can trigger a broader shift—tightening inventory, resetting pricing expectations, and attracting fresh investment that ultimately alters the trajectory of an entire place.
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