modernize
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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
The US and Russia hold nearly 90 percent of nuclear weapons globally and have carried out major programs to modernize them in recent years, according to SIPRI.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Department of Agriculture to support the National Farm Security Action Plan and modernize how the department delivers services to U.S. farmers.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 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
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