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customize

[kuhs-tuh-mahyz] / ˈkʌs təˌmaɪz /
VERB
modify to personal expectations
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The beauty of Finch is that it actively deters you from an all-or-nothing mindset; you can customize your goals realistically to your lifestyle and needs.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

Nearly one in five teens already own a Cash App card, Templeton said, and the company allows users to customize their cards with colors, self-made illustrations and glow-in-the-dark features.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

The result is a cheap artificial-intelligence system that users can download and customize, an American counterpart to a host of upstart Chinese models that are shaking up the AI race.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Like most of China's offerings, it costs less and uses source code that programmers can customize.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

“The default setting is typically ‘help,’ but you can customize as the situation allows.”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

While Apple customizes many components inside iPhones, Khan said, “there isn’t a lot of customization” for memory, alluding to the possibility that commodity Chinese memory chips could be used.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Whenever she’s on the hunt for a new pair, her first stop is the Rose Bowl Flea Market where she finds Allyn Scura, a local vendor, who customizes vintage frames.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2025

This new testing method further advances precision medicine, which is a patient care approach that customizes treatments specifically for a person's genetics, environment and lifestyle.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2024

Elevate analyzes and tracks your improvement and customizes a training program just for you.

From Seattle Times Dec. 20, 2021

The plant sometimes customizes guns with scratches and blemishes by painting American flags on them, she said.

From Washington Post

Because some DNA sequences can be programmed to interact more strongly than others, scientists may eventually be able to take advantage of these properties to build customized DNA structures for biotechnology.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

She had experience painting sets at work for the entertainment industry, but had never customized a rental of her own like this.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The chips Broadcom is helping customers design are customized for specific computing work.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Because Irwin didn’t come within 200 pounds of fitting through a standard car door, he drove a customized sedan outfitted with a wide-load rear hatch through which he wiggled in and out.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

"It avoids the complex process of customizing cells and uses readily available drugs to reversibly enhance NK cells' anti-tumor activities."

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

Vargo purchased her home in April 2025 for about $450,000, spending closer to $465,000 all in after customizing finishes like lighting, fixtures and hardware.

From MarketWatch Apr. 24, 2026

So she became an expert in customizing ChatGPT to write voicey marketing copy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Plus, her fans went to the trouble of buying and customizing lookalike wigs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2025

Lena had been creating paint-by-numbers canvases for him, sketching them with expert speed, customizing each image to his specifications.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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