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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
modernize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective brought up to date
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Examples
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Did the Chair request NASA help in modernized help, NO.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A street rod is typically defined as a modernized vintage vehicle originally manufactured prior to 1949.
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A street rod is typically defined as a modernized vintage vehicle originally manufactured prior to 1949.
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A 15-year veteran of Mediterranean cooking, Benhadou's style is best described as modernized 'classic' cooking.
AME Info Latest News 2009
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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.
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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
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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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