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The La Brea Tar Pits’ Page Museum will close in July for a two-year renovation that will modernize the building and make it more accessible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The companies say the partnership will modernize shareholder engagement and enable 24-hour trading, while retaining a regulated market with deep liquidity.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

He also said India will modernize its infrastructure, including its railways, airways, and waterways.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2024

The act will modernize the criminal code and eliminate almost all mandatory minimum sentences, lower maximum sentences to 45 years and allow judicial sentencing reconsideration after 20 years of imprisonment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

Keep to the original, and if you will modernize Catullus, you must merely say, she was so safe a boat that the owner did not think it worth while to insure.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various