as in to redesign
to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage
the movie is basically a retelling of the tried-and-true Cinderella story, updated for today's hipper audiences
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Recent Examples of update
Tye, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus, used these observations to update models involving the cosmological constant, a concept introduced by Albert Einstein over a century ago.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
During the record-setting podcast episode, the singer's website updated with an album cover of her in bathwater wearing a sparkly corset.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
The kiosks will eventually be updated with facial recognition tech, similar to Face ID on phones, to speed up the check-in process.
—Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
This is a developing story and will be updated.
—Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
During the record-setting podcast episode, the singer's website updated with an album cover of her in bathwater wearing a sparkly corset.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
The kiosks will eventually be updated with facial recognition tech, similar to Face ID on phones, to speed up the check-in process.
—Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
This is a developing story and will be updated.
—Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for update
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Sure, not everyone can become self-employed or redesign their career.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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The result is about 10 rooms inside the A-lister’s California home being redesigned, bringing her hopes for the abode to fruition.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
1 Oct. 2025
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Stablecoins are not the only route to modernizing the correspondent banking system.—
Chris Maurice,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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But from the very first race in the summer of 1993, these sausages have sizzled and arguably helped to modernize the most traditional American pastime.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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The team chemistry could be streamlined with five players with Baltic blood in the rotation, two of whom are brothers.—
CJ Moore,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The approach also allows for higher production numbers, which could lower long-term maintenance costs and streamline logistics for the PLA, Wang said.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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Nonetheless, those losses could mean an uphill fight for his administration even in front of the justices, who have so far sided with the president on many legal challenges to his effort to remake the government.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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Leaving this out of the story of tenure prevents scholars from effectively withstanding attacks that seek to remake how academic labor is performed today.—
Time,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Update.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/update. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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