How to Use contemporize in a Sentence
contemporize
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When Aretha Franklin’s career stalled in later years, Davis contemporized her style.
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Jason Kravarik,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
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Bestselling classic Banana styles of the past are being reimagined and contemporized.
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David Moin,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
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Today, Venice is alive with relatively new firms and names seeking to contemporize Venetian glass.
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Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
6 May 2026
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Movado is mining its archives to revisit and contemporize iconic Art Deco styles for the 21st century consumer.
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Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
14 Nov. 2025
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Anderson has contemporized the timeline, situating us in our dismayingly recognizable era of fascist creep and following a sadly less recognizable underground effort to stop it.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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At the 151-room W Budapest, a Neo-Renaissance building from 1886 once home to the Hungarian State Ballet Academy, lavish details like tiles and arches were preserved, yet are contemporized with such elements as sleek bronze cladding.
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Alia Akkam,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Mar. 2024
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