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customize

[kuhs-tuh-mahyz] / ˈkʌs təˌmaɪz /
VERB
modify to personal expectations
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Palantir is instead allowing customers to customize and run models on their own infrastructure and retain full ownership of their data.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Open models are free to download and allow users to customize them for their own needs, although operating any model comes with computing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Don’t skip dessert, either, and if you’re a coffee drinker, order the Lao coffee, served with condensed milk and a sugar cube on the side so you can customize the sweetness to your liking.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

With the new upgrade, users can now even customize the expressiveness or pace of Siri’s voice.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

“The default setting is typically ‘help,’ but you can customize as the situation allows.”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

While Apple customizes many components inside iPhones, Khan said, “there isn’t a lot of customization” for memory, alluding to the possibility that commodity Chinese memory chips could be used.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Davis customizes treatment plans for each person, and individual sessions are $300 a visit.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2025

This new testing method further advances precision medicine, which is a patient care approach that customizes treatments specifically for a person's genetics, environment and lifestyle.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2024

The photo was taken on Dec. 8, 2003, as Maxwell and Bamford, whose business customizes luxury watches, attended the opening of the Asprey Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue in New York.

From Seattle Times Jul. 17, 2020

The plant sometimes customizes guns with scratches and blemishes by painting American flags on them, she said.

From Washington Post

To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Many items can be customized, repackaged and branded for bulk buyers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

At the exclusive terminal for the rich and the famous at Los Angeles International Airport, passengers are greeted with champagne and caviar, then whisked directly to their planes in a customized BMW.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

It also manufactured shoes that were customized to account for Kerr’s asymmetrical push-off.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

But the interior is a tacky lime green, so it’s been customized at some point.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

"It avoids the complex process of customizing cells and uses readily available drugs to reversibly enhance NK cells' anti-tumor activities."

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

Vargo purchased her home in April 2025 for about $450,000, spending closer to $465,000 all in after customizing finishes like lighting, fixtures and hardware.

From MarketWatch Apr. 24, 2026

It’s their choice to share the data that is useful not only for customizing AI but also training the company models.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 14, 2026

Aaliyah Warren, 23, professional roller skater, model and performer: We love customizing our boots, so we get them graffitied and painted.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2025

Lena had been creating paint-by-numbers canvases for him, sketching them with expert speed, customizing each image to his specifications.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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