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to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage
the new owners of the old-line French restaurant plan to contemporize the menu and make the place seem less intimidating
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Ethylene oxide was already identified as a carcinogen by the state, but the new assessment updates its risk levels based on the new research.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026 -
The victim, who was being held against hit will in Kelly's truck, called 911 and was providing real-time location updates.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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At the conclusion of every regular season, provided the Knicks make the playoffs, the organization redesigns the corridor leading from the home locker room to the Madison Square Garden hardwood floors.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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This approach redesigns enterprise workflows to embed value, operationalize governance and harden the AI lifecycle, ensuring reliability over time.—
Ashwin Gaidhani,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.—
James Duesterberg,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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According to him, the goal is to build a system that modernizes the full lifecycle of a prescription from the moment it’s written to when the patient picks it up, and ideally beyond.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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The act ensures the legalization and regulation of surrogacy, streamlines the process of obtaining formal parental recognition and better protects parents, surrogates and children.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
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One of the new bills streamlines the process for working with insurance companies.—
Maria Lisignoli,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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“Contemporizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporizes. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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