modernize

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The La Brea Tar Pits’ Page Museum will close in July for a two-year renovation that will modernize the building and make it more accessible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The White House argues that rebuilding the site would help modernize the federal prison system and expand capacity for high-risk inmates.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

IBM suffered its worst day in 25 years, compounded by Anthropic’s announcement that its Claude AI could modernize COBOL, the programming language holding IBM’s mainframe empire together.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

It directed regulators to move supervisory guidance away from “overly technical process-oriented” approaches, to reform capital and liquidity rules and to modernize appraisal regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

In 1876, elected President of Bowdoin College, where he attempts to modernize the school, introducing courses in science, de-emphasizing religion, and becomes involved in student demonstrations over the question of ROTC.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara