FIXES UP Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

fixes up

verb

present tense third-person singular of fix up

as in rebuilds

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The quarter in which your finance team rebuilds intercompany flows looks, from the outside, like a quarter in which nothing happened.

— Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Mason McTavish was the biggest exit, John Carlson turned out to be a rental and Jacob Trouba switched California rebuilds.

— Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of rebuilds

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The legislation overhauls several federal housing programs and streamlines environmental review processes for housing.

— Joey Garrison, USA Today, 10 July 2026
The bill overhauls the way presidents are chosen, replacing direct popular elections with selection by lawmakers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026

Definition of overhauls

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In that dialogue, Endymion, the mythical shepherd, is imprisoned in an eternal sleep by Artemis and accosts a stranger who is on his way to Mount Latmus, where Endymion repairs each night to wait for Artemis.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Israel bars entry of almost all construction materials, making even repairs difficult.

— Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of repairs

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, a fierce OpenAI competitor, is the bad guy of The Social Reckoning, opening October 9, which reconstructs the 2021 showdown between Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) and whistleblower Frances Haugen (Oscar-winner Mikey Madison).

— Philip Shenon, Air Mail, 19 Sep. 2026
The redesign is taking place while the MTA reconstructs the Grand Central Train Shed, which is directly below the stretch of Park Avenue that'll be part of the redesign.

— Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of reconstructs

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This step introduces air into the eggs, which aids in leavening and keeps the blondies from baking up too dense.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026
The absence of the SLC women and their tension with Barlow aids the convivial atmosphere, but Lisa isn’t completely safe from a whacking.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of aids

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Next, there is the issue of tarsal glands (the dark patches on the rear legs of a buck, below the knee joint).

— Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026
By Childs’s count, Tuesday’s release patches 972 vulnerabilities, and 997 when counting the porting of fixes for the Chromium browser incorporated into Edge.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of patches

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