as in to rebuild
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Recent Examples of fix up
Leia, for instance, spent the bulk of one appearance working with the furry Chewbacca to fix up the starship Millennium Falcon.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
Mutual Ground in Aurora has received a $2 million grant to fix up its historic home, while a larger expansion project sits on the horizon.
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R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Sabini and Goater spent time at the Davis Bike Collective, a nonprofit where volunteers teach Davis' thousands of bike enthusiasts to fix up and even build their own bikes.
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Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
This tactic led voters to approve higher sales taxes in San Francisco in 2014 — allegedly to improve transit programs and fix roads — in Los Angeles County in 2017 — allegedly to reduce homelessness — and in Fresno in 2018 — allegedly to fix up parks and boost public safety.
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U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
Mutual Ground in Aurora has received a $2 million grant to fix up its historic home, while a larger expansion project sits on the horizon.
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R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Sabini and Goater spent time at the Davis Bike Collective, a nonprofit where volunteers teach Davis' thousands of bike enthusiasts to fix up and even build their own bikes.
—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
This tactic led voters to approve higher sales taxes in San Francisco in 2014 — allegedly to improve transit programs and fix roads — in Los Angeles County in 2017 — allegedly to reduce homelessness — and in Fresno in 2018 — allegedly to fix up parks and boost public safety.
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U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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On its west rebuild construction project, the department says that effort to repave a 17-mile stretch on the I-285 is on track to finish by 2028.
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The agreement could also establish a $300 billion investment fund, which could help the country rebuild.
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Sununu, who formerly served as governor of New Hampshire, urged Congress to find more money to overhaul the air traffic control system — on top of the billions lawmakers appropriated last year to upgrade communications and radar equipment.
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Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association, said some grocers have had to overhaul their labeling systems, but as a whole, the association has been supportive of the change.
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According to an account of her testimony in Rolling Stone, Avila was left with severe scarring on her face and left arm, with limited mobility after surgeons grafted skin from her abdomen to repair her arm.
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Ndiaye’s season ended early after surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder.
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After some behind-the-scene friction on Stranger Things, which Harbour and Brown have both acknowledged without elaborating on details, the two appear to have patched things up.
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Another bug patched in the Chrome 149 update is CVE-2026-13035, a use after free bug in Bluetooth given a high impact rating.
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Jessica Luther Rummel, lead researcher for the cemetery association, has been reconstructing that arc from newspapers, Census data and burial records.
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In 2016, Fitzpatrick had a 15½-hour surgery where doctors reconstructed half her tongue, using veins and arteries from her arm and thighs.
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Donaldson’s wife, Eleanor Donaldson, was found to have aided and abetted her husband’s offenses for witnessing the abuse and doing nothing to intervene.
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Grant also said passengers should consider wearing closed-toe shoes, which can aid in quickly evacuating.
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But a dose of doxycycline or amoxicillin can generally cure it.
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But the Shadow has at the very least cured me of my sneakerphobia.
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Rodríguez said on Saturday night that 24 countries had sent aid and more than 2,700 rescuers were in the country to help with search operations.
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Batches of limited stock sales will be allowed in the coming months, however, and some real estate agents and bankers are putting together workarounds to help expectant millionaires leverage their future gains to secure loans.
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“Fix up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fix%20up. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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