contemporize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
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to give a modern or contemporary character or setting to; update.
The new production of Romeo and Juliet contemporizes it as the love of two modern teenagers in a Chicago high school.
verb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of contemporize
1640–50; < Late Latin contempor- (stem of contemporāre to be at the same time), equivalent to con- con- + tempor- (stem of tempus time) + -ize
Example Sentences
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“This gives us the opportunity to reimagine and contemporize coverage.”
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023
Next on her agenda, she plans to contemporize works of Memphis-based photographer Ernest Withers for an upcoming show and to explore interactive and participatory art in her practice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
“Howard has a rich legacy. … My responsibility is to contemporize that and to bring faculty to the university who are in the contemporary space, speaking to present-day issues.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2021
To contemporize a midcentury home that he found in San Diego, architect John Ike expanded on the modernist ideal of integrating nature into the space and deviated from the style’s love of straight lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2016
Such estates seem to defy Time's tooth, and by conditions which take hold of the indestructible earth seem to contemporize their fee-simples with eternity.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
“We want to do a very faithful but contemporized adaptation of the book, but our idea was to do it with all girls rather than boys,” Siegel told Deadline.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2017
Swamp Thing, created with the writer Len Wein, was promoted to his own series in 1972, which contemporized his origin, set up his home base as Louisiana and introduced his love interest, Abigail Arcane.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2017
Prince has both mastered the Hendrix style and contemporized it; he has become something of a past master at haze in general.
From Time Magazine Archive
It hasn't been contemporized, stars neither Gwyneth Paltrow nor Ethan Hawke and features no recordings by Tori Amos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nine Mexican songs, contemporized but not homogenized by an ace rock band.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marks: That helps put in context some of the shortcomings of Davenant's effort at contemporizing and why, for me, Shakespeare's version is transcendent, while this one feels so plodding.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018
Gash’s staging, which incorporates distractingly contemporizing projections between scenes, has a few weaknesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2017
Reid, who called the process "contemporizing", said he was "proud" to "present this music to the world".
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2014
“We embraced the spirit of the house, giving it a face-lift and contemporizing its structure while remaining sensitive to the island’s traditional, historical aesthetic,” Knollenberg explains.
From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 1, 2010
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