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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernizes
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Parmar also deliberately streamlines clinic notes by encouraging his providers to avoid the common habit of copying and pasting blocks of obsolete or redundant information in favor of quick updates that can be scanned easily at subsequent visits.—
Helen Ouyang,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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Artificial intelligence already streamlines reviews, with further tooling planned to flag likely coding errors, improve provider communications, and predict problem hot spots.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Here’s what Mike McDaniel said at his Friday news conference, before the Grier news broke, and some injury updates.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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Live updates But enough of his fellow Republicans appear opposed, to prevent a change in the rule.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Barden redesigns the trail layout every year and adds new features, too.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
24 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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Done right, remakes can be a fantastic way to introduce a franchise to a new audience, but also have to be transformative enough that veterans who’ve played the original come away with a different experience.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 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
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“Modernizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernizes. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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