modernized

It was one of the ways that Mexico had modernized, he felt.

This is the new white nationalism: decentralized, modernized, more agile and disguised as self-improvement.

And Northrop Grumman, maker of the B-21 Raider bomber and Sentinel ICBM, two legs of America’s “modernized” nuclear triad, has seen its shares increase by more than 1,400%.

She modernized “1960s-era” administrative offices, and her welcome party helped “strengthen relationships.”

In the early 20th century, totalitarianism was best known in countries that had superficially been modernized, but remained regressive in crucial ways.