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
For Sydney Sweeney’s look in particular, her hairstylist Glen Oropeza drew inspiration from vintage finger waves, while also attempting to modernize the hairstyle.
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Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 6 May 2025
Also in the plan: $5.4 billion to modernize the subway signal system, which dates to the Great Depression and which the M.T.A. blames for an average of nearly 4,000 train delays a month over the last 15 months.
—James Barron, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that operating, sustaining, and modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons will cost $946 billion between 2025 and 2034.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Ostensibly delivered to modernize Syria’s outdated air defenses in the face of Israeli airstrikes, the system remained under direct Russian military control until Moscow withdrew it in 2022 after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 6 May 2025
Also in the plan: $5.4 billion to modernize the subway signal system, which dates to the Great Depression and which the M.T.A. blames for an average of nearly 4,000 train delays a month over the last 15 months.
—James Barron, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that operating, sustaining, and modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons will cost $946 billion between 2025 and 2034.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Ostensibly delivered to modernize Syria’s outdated air defenses in the face of Israeli airstrikes, the system remained under direct Russian military control until Moscow withdrew it in 2022 after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernize
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While traditional mattress companies were optimizing foam densities and coil configurations, Matteo was asking a more fundamental question: What if sleep itself could be redesigned?—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Storage has been redesigned to be more intuitive—cabinets now flip up rather than down—the side and rear windows now open up, and a skylight has been installed above the dinette.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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The Gutiérrez Soto building in Madrid’s upscale Salamanca district has been updated and restored by the architect Julio Touza Sacristán.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
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The best from Met Gala 2025, red carpet updates, top fashion stories and celebrity style.—
Morgan Evans,
Vogue,
3 May 2025
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The software ecosystem allows for quick creation of 3D apps using Unity templates, and content can be managed just like any other iOS application, streamlining updates and deployment.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2025
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Trump has long portrayed Social Security as a system rife with waste and fraud, publicly promoting efforts to streamline its administration.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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Yair Rosenberg: Trump is remaking the world in his image Nowhere is this shift more consequential than in the United States, which was the original visionary and anchor of the postwar order.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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And so the company re-created the staging, rebuilding Etienne Pluss’s sets, remaking Ursula Kudrna’s costumes, and casting the lifelike head of Jochanaan (a.k.a. St. John the Baptist) in the image of baritone Peter Mattei.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Modernize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernize. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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