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contemporize

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con·tem·po·rize  (kn-tmp-rz)
v. con·tem·po·rized, con·tem·po·riz·ing, con·tem·po·riz·es
v.tr.
1. To regard or place in the same time period; synchronize.
2. To make modern or contemporary, as in style or décor.
v.intr.
To be contemporary.

[From contemporary.]

con·tempo·ri·zation (-tmpr--zshn) n.

contemporize, contemporise [kənˈtɛmpəˌraɪz]
vb
to be or make contemporary; synchronize
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.contemporize - happen at the same time
hap, happen, occur, come about, take place, go on, pass off, fall out, pass - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
2.contemporize - arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events"
arrange, order, put, set up - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"


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We need to be creative about how we keep the message and the beauty the same, but contemporize it somehow.
His work, which relies on a collage of assorted styles and periods of architecture, takes on a ruined appearance--the cheap materials notwithstanding, he consciously adds a distressed, disorganized appearance to both his paintings and his sculptures--permitting an examination of the way memory abstracts and contemporizes iconic structures.
Whose idea was it to contemporize the screenplay from the original 1960s setting?
 
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