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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of modernize.

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  • adjective brought up to date

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Examples

  • Did the Chair request NASA help in modernized help, NO.

    Augustine Commission Website Now Online - NASA Watch 2009

  • Often we tend to lump them together simply as Art Nouveau and Art Deco, though their individual taxonomies are a bit more complex -- consider the Barcelona modernismo of Gaudi and Jujol, the various national romanticisms, or the intriguing and often unclassifiable experiments in modernized traditional liturgical design that occurred in interwar France.

    The Other Modern: An Introduction 2009

  • We held what we called "reliability summits" around the country, saying, one, we in America, we're a superpower, but we have a third-world grid that needs to be modernized, that is antiquated.

    CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2003 2003

  • We held what we called reliability summits around the country saying, one, we and America were a superpower, but we have a third world grid that needs to be modernized, that is antiquated.

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2003 2003

  • A street rod is typically defined as a modernized vintage vehicle originally manufactured prior to 1949.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • A street rod is typically defined as a modernized vintage vehicle originally manufactured prior to 1949.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • A 15-year veteran of Mediterranean cooking, Benhadou's style is best described as modernized 'classic' cooking.

    AME Info Latest News 2009

  • Scruton uses as an example the widespread habit in productions of opera to alter the staging and the dramatic vision to produce a "modernized" version.

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

  • Scruton uses as an example the widespread habit in productions of opera to alter the staging and the dramatic vision to produce a "modernized" version.

    Art and Culture 2010

  • Here's a good (or bad, as it were) example of a once respectable workhorse nameplate that's been thoroughly "modernized" into the absolute donkey that it is today.

    If It Ain't Broke... 2009

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