as in to rebuild
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Recent Examples of fix up
Fort Worth needs to borrow a lot of money to fix up roads, build parks, and construct an animal shelter.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
What is meant to be a quick trip to fix up and sell the property quickly turns into something far more ominous.
—Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Imposing higher taxes on building improvements offers an equally perverse disincentive to fix up properties.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
The trailer showed how Cumming and Morrissey’s characters become entangled when Cumming, a gay bar owner, employs Morrissey, a construction worker struggling to find work, to fix up his bar.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
What is meant to be a quick trip to fix up and sell the property quickly turns into something far more ominous.
—Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Imposing higher taxes on building improvements offers an equally perverse disincentive to fix up properties.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
The trailer showed how Cumming and Morrissey’s characters become entangled when Cumming, a gay bar owner, employs Morrissey, a construction worker struggling to find work, to fix up his bar.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fix up
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That could leave states on the hook for millions of dollars to rebuild roads, schools and other infrastructure after tornadoes, floods and other disasters that do not cause enough widespread damage to meet the new criteria for federal assistance.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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Tehran has touted the strait as a potential revenue stream that could help rebuild the country after destruction caused by American and Israeli strikes.—
Eleni Giokos,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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Educators are overhauling their classroom management approach to cut down on the chaos.—
Stacker,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Four years after overhauling its professional standards program in the wake of that scandal, the state agency terminated nine firefighters and disciplined five others for drinking on duty during a six-week training session at the same academy.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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Curry played in five games after surgery to repair a broken second metacarpal.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
10 May 2026
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Perhaps repair some divots on a court that took a beating Saturday night.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
10 May 2026
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The limited group that was part of the initial Mythos release got a head start on patching vulnerabilities, but there is a downside.—
Hugh Son,Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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In some cases, that means delaying repairs or patching things together, with artworks ending up in makeshift storage like garages or even bathrooms.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026
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Using this data, Xuan-Min Shao, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was able to reconstruct the way the overall current moved during the start of these strikes.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 May 2026
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Frames were digitally reconstructed and the results were seamless.—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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British paratroopers reached a remote volcanic island with medics and supplies to aid a former cruise ship passenger who may have contracted hantavirus.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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That community aided in the acquisition of land and the 2012 construction of a barrier-free, accessible home for the Porters in west Omaha.—
Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Or that Salieri once masturbated over his beloved piano in an unfruitful attempt to cure his writer’s block.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
8 May 2026
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South Africa couldn’t revoke the payout because the underlying disease — an economy that has hardly grown for more than a decade alongside unemployment at more than 30% — was never cured.—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
8 May 2026
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However, rights groups, including Global Witness, have long urged jewelers to avoid buying Burmese gemstones, saying the trade helps fund the country's military governments, according to The Associated Press.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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The goal was to help end partisan gridlock in Sacramento and force candidates in primaries to appeal to a wider range of voters, rather than just those in their own party.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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“Fix up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fix%20up. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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