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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of modernise.

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  • adjective brought up to date

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Examples

  • I want to cite another speaker who told the Empire club about the exciting opportunities present in modernised farming.

    Prairie Agriculture: An Important Part of Canada's Future 2000

  • Under Blair, Britain "modernised" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved for his decade-plus as British prime minister.

    William Bradley: Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama 2009

  • I'm also a bit uncomfortable with the chapel in school, the hymns being so 'modernised' and stuff.

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2007

  • Bliar "modernised" and we rightly attacked him for it.

    Telegraph Column: Grammar Lessons for Cameron 2007

  • I'm getting a bit worried about the "modernised" Tory Party - Shadow Chancellor George Osborne was attacking Gordon yesterday telling him to "go back to Scotland" and comparing New Labour to the old Soviet Union; Cameron wants increased selfishness; Archer may be on his way back to the frontline; and Thatcher has won a vote.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Kerron Cross 2005

  • Japanese artisan is also becoming "modernised," and is now demanding higher wages, and enforcing his demand by "strikes."

    Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

  • Wulfings_ (1889) to _The Sundering Flood_, published after the author's death in 1898, were actual romances -- written in a kind of modernised fifteenth-century English, and dealing, some with far back incidents of the conflict between Romans and "Barbarians," most with the frank no-time and no-place of Romance itself.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • Plenty of claims are made on his behalf that he has 'modernised' the party.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Plans include additional operating theatres for day surgery and a "modernised" outpatients department.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Too my ears this interesting first EP sounds like a 'modernised' and 'innovated' approach to technical black metal.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009

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