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
The building’s original Portland stone facade was retained, while the interior has been updated with contemporary codes, with concrete flooring, aluminum and glass vitrines, and stainless steel perimeter wrapping the space.
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026
Academic standards and textbooks for each school subject are updated every six years.
—Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 9 Feb. 2026
Those are electronic shelf labels that automatically update product costs.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones, a close friend of the Arnold family, commented on her relationship with Tara Arnold during a news conference Monday updating residents on the winter storm affecting the county.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026
Academic standards and textbooks for each school subject are updated every six years.
—Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 9 Feb. 2026
Those are electronic shelf labels that automatically update product costs.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones, a close friend of the Arnold family, commented on her relationship with Tara Arnold during a news conference Monday updating residents on the winter storm affecting the county.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for update
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Their goal was to enable faster decision-making without completely redesigning existing camera systems.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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As new abilities improve, Fauna can add them through software updates rather than redesigning the hardware.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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In a nation that’s largely overstored, there’s little room left to build new shopping centers, so mall owners have been focusing on modernizing existing properties.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Russia has been seen modernizing its nuclear facilities, and in recent years, China has expanded its main test site by digging new tunnels.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2026
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Finally, cut property taxes, streamline regulation, and keep Texas affordable so families can stay and businesses keep choosing Texas.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel already established a Gothic world in which the trauma is as loud as the wind on the moors, and Emerald Fennell’s adaptation excises major portions of the book to streamline that atmospheric darkness and ultimate tragedy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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The show, in exaggerating adolescence—in remaking that consequential phase as a fantasy and a melodrama—also managed to honor it.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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That echoes recommendations laid out in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a sweeping conservative plan to remake American society that includes limiting regulation of climate pollution.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Update.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/update. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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