as in to repair
to put into good shape or working order again
asked my neighbor to help me recondition the old tractor for use on the family farm
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Recent Examples of recondition
The other noteworthy change to All In, All Covered is that the Axiom helmets must be reconditioned every two years.
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Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
The helmets can be reconditioned to allow multiple players to wear them throughout their lifetimes, typically five to 10 years, depending on maintenance and wear-and-tear.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
Unfortunately, many wind up being reconditioned to some degree and sold to unsuspecting consumers.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Trains roll into the facilities, where they are disassembled, reconditioned to near-factory specifications, and then sent back out into a railroad that functions as New York’s vascular system, pumping more than a billion riders across 345 million miles each year, 24 hours a day, every day.
—David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
The helmets can be reconditioned to allow multiple players to wear them throughout their lifetimes, typically five to 10 years, depending on maintenance and wear-and-tear.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
Unfortunately, many wind up being reconditioned to some degree and sold to unsuspecting consumers.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Trains roll into the facilities, where they are disassembled, reconditioned to near-factory specifications, and then sent back out into a railroad that functions as New York’s vascular system, pumping more than a billion riders across 345 million miles each year, 24 hours a day, every day.
—David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recondition
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In the 50 years since, particularly the past 30 after formal relations were normalized in 1995, Washington has pursued reconciliation efforts with Hanoi, including a number of programs that sought to repair some of the damage the war wrought on generations of Vietnamese.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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Rigid robots are prone to damage in unstable, cramped environments and are expensive to repair.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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With Sheinbaum still attacking the DEA as a symbol of American interventionism, all four of those competing agencies may have an easier time rebuilding trust with the Mexican government.—
Tim Golden,
ProPublica,
29 Apr. 2025
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The town of Jackson is rebuilding three months after the attack, but Ellie is still out for justice.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The New York Times reconstructed how the Trump administration and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador struck a deal that led to the deportation of more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Supply chains built over decades are being torn apart and reconstructed at great cost.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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The network has put together a focus group to figure out how to fix the issue.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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To fix this, the MIT researchers developed a new ultra-thin material that can sense infrared radiation without any cooling and outperforms cooled detectors at the same time.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2025
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“Recondition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recondition. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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