fix up
verb
fixed up; fixing up; fixes up
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The New York Times reported on July 27 that $934 million was pulled from a financially fraught program to revamp the U.S.'s aging nuclear missile stockpile to fix up the plane.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 29 July 2025
There was a doll to be fixed up and chastised with a hairbrush that was twice its length.
—Anne Enright, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
At hundreds of feet long, the unfinished stations with their high platforms are too big, inaccessible, and would cost too much to fix up, Mecklenborg said.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The streets are a hodgepodge of old industrial buildings, natural-wine bars, empty lots, boutique gyms, and wobbly-looking houses in the midst of being either fixed up or torn down.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 June 2025
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 29 July 2025
There was a doll to be fixed up and chastised with a hairbrush that was twice its length.
—Anne Enright, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
At hundreds of feet long, the unfinished stations with their high platforms are too big, inaccessible, and would cost too much to fix up, Mecklenborg said.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The streets are a hodgepodge of old industrial buildings, natural-wine bars, empty lots, boutique gyms, and wobbly-looking houses in the midst of being either fixed up or torn down.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 June 2025
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“Fix up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fix%20up. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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