modernize
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Paris’s enormous science and technology museum is a reminder of France’s role in helping the world modernize and mechanize.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Harfuch "sought to professionalize, to modernize the intelligence agency to go after crimes," said Gerardo Rodriguez, an academic expert in national security who met Harfuch in 2018.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
Since taking power in 2012, Xi has used anticorruption purges to consolidate control and advance plans to modernize a military that hasn’t fought a full-scale war since 1979, when China battled Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
“Our goal is to modernize the calculation,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
"I figured I shouldn't dress you traditionally. It's time to modernize Belles, in my humble opinion. Du Barry has been so ancient in her preparations," he says under his breath.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Vocabulary lists containing modernize
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