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- verb Alternative spelling of
modernize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become technologically advanced
- verb make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
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Examples
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Lets just hope they don't "modernise" the story and remove too much.
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Link this to the desire of some to 'modernise' our voting methods and the paranoid could suspect they are up to more than a simple bribe for the voters.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Is it me, or is "modernise" a euphemism for "abandon your principles and loyal supporters and blatantly pander to whatever micro-sliver of the electorate in the marginals you guess you need to win a majority"?
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The Conservative party under Cameron has not and will not 'modernise'.
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What he reelly, reelly wanted to do was "modernise": modernise, I tell you, we must modernise.
We must modernise… Richard 2005
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Nick Boles, one of the Conservatives' so-called modernisers forgive the repeated qualifications, but terms such as modernise' have become virtually meaningless, has called openly for a pact so that the parties can continue their crusade for two terms.
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The policy rules out building new nuclear weapons but does call for setting aside billions of dollars to "modernise" existing US weaponry.
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EU to offer Russia money to "modernise" judiciary at summit photo: AP/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential
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But of course, like everything these days, people want to "modernise" with the latest whiz-bang concept, in this case teaching a 10-week ethics course to the
newmatilda.com - Comments David Grayling 2010
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The policy rules out building new nuclear weapons but does call for setting aside billions of dollars to "modernise" existing US weaponry.
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