as in to redesign
to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage
a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century
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Recent Examples of modernize
Additional pigments were also included to make shade-matching seamless—a makeup artist with the brand matched me from an Instagram photo on the first try—and overall, the foundation just feels modernized to leave a more skin-like finish.
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Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
Imagine Entertainment has teamed with dairy and food giant Land O’Lakes in an effort to modernize the portrayals of rural America in movies and TV shows.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
The congressional funding deal also includes $514 million to subsidize air services to rural communities, known as the Essential Air Service program, rejecting a White House proposal to cut the program by 50%, and boosts annual funding to modernize air traffic control towers by $824 million.
—Reuters
wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
Advocates have for years warned that Foundation Aid had become outdated, prompting the governor and state Legislature last year to finally modernize how the formula accounts for poverty.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
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Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
Imagine Entertainment has teamed with dairy and food giant Land O’Lakes in an effort to modernize the portrayals of rural America in movies and TV shows.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
The congressional funding deal also includes $514 million to subsidize air services to rural communities, known as the Essential Air Service program, rejecting a White House proposal to cut the program by 50%, and boosts annual funding to modernize air traffic control towers by $824 million.
—Reuters
wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
Advocates have for years warned that Foundation Aid had become outdated, prompting the governor and state Legislature last year to finally modernize how the formula accounts for poverty.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernize
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The Leaf was redesigned for 2026 with a new look inside and out with a new shape, new battery and new platform.—
Sasha Lekach,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Apple redesigned AirTag’s internal layout to improve sound output.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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Then as during the latest shutoffs, people complained that Xcel didn’t keep the public updated, leaving them in the dark as to how long the electricity would be off.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Dania Beach project aims to update drainage systems in a flood-prone neighborhood.—
Marybel Rodriguez,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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In an internal email to staff obtained by The Times, academy CEO Bill Kramer, who took the reins of the organization in 2022, framed the changes as part of a broader strategic initiative over the past two years aimed at streamlining operations to align with the academy’s evolving mission.—
Malia Mendez,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
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Politics aside, Newsom’s proposal would streamline governance that is now opaque and fragmented, and shields the system’s many points of authority from accountability.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Such rhetoric leads to a society where everyone fights for the ability to try to remake the nation in their own image.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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Derek Stevens—owner of Circa, The Golden Gate and The D—took a big gamble on remaking Downtown Las Vegas.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Modernize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernize. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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