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Example sentences for: modernized

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Freeh's big successes: He's modernized the FBI crime lab and restored integrity to his office.
Her proudest achievement, though, was the Green Revolution that modernized wheat and rice farming to give India, for the first time in its history, self-sufficiency in food production.
Across the main square, the town hall, in spite of having been modernized, retains a pair of splendid 15th- to 16th-century Manueline windows.
Downtown Kunming has modernized rapidly, but there are still a few touches of the old, the exotic, and the scenic: a colorful bird and flower market, the Nancheng Ancient Mosque, the blind masseurs who work outside in the public square at the Workers’ Cultural Hall.
Rowling has cleverly, and subtly, modernized these realms with respect to matters like gender equality and multiculturalism--not that she makes a big fuss about such things.