modernizes

present tense third-person singular of modernize
as in streamlines
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 modernizes The app also modernizes a traveler favorite. Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025 As Duke modernizes its infrastructure to meet the Carolinas’ growing energy needs, combining the 52,000-square-mile service area would avoid redundant investments and costs like maintenance and fuel. Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2025 At stake is the reliability of Social Security for more than 70 million Americans, especially older adults and people with disabilities, as the agency modernizes and manages its workforce under intense political scrutiny. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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  • Instead of juggling dozens of photos in your camera roll, Proofr streamlines the process.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For a good while, though, Schnabel streamlines it into an entertainingly low-down saga of the place where violent crime meets poetic passion.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • Residents are advised to continue monitoring NWS updates, as forecasts and conditions can change rapidly with shifting weather patterns.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Parks will not provide regular road and trail condition updates.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • SpaceX redesigns Starship ahead of flight 10 SpaceX also revealed a redesign to Starship earlier in August after the first three test flights of 2025 all ended in dramatic explosions in the sky.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
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  • With the company’s future now secure in Lachlan’s control, the executive is widely expected to execute on an expansion plan, perhaps through M&A or other in-house development, as the company remakes itself for a digital era.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In June this year, True CJ signed a new licensing partnership with regional arm CJ ENM HK to bring Korean IP remakes to Latin America and several Asian markets, including Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
    The Deadline Team, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Modernizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernizes. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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