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Modernizing (adj) means wanting or trying to make something more modern.

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Wanting or trying to make something more modern.

"However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”" — Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions (1970)

"In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role." — Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (1968)

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