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Aggiornamento

2023/5/10
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Aggiornamento is a noun that refers to the process of modernization or bringing something up to date. 

Our word of the day comes from the Italian word aggionare (ah gee oh NARE ay) a verb that means ‘to update.’ Here’s an example of aggiornamento in use:

I understand the aggiornamento of those old stadiums from a standpoint of public safety. But it seems to me that there's beauty in an old structure that simply doesn’t survive the modernization process.