Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixing up
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Netanyahu is reportedly considering another round of strikes on Iran over concerns Tehran is rebuilding its nuclear sites.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026 -
The rebuilding Cardinals are also fielding interest in Donovan from the San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners, though, and at Saturday’s Fenway Fest, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow sounded wary of making another trade.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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Four of those children, including Jonah Bevin, were adopted from Ethiopia in 2012, three years before Matt Bevin won the gubernatorial race in Kentucky, running on a platform that included overhauling the state's foster care system.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
8 Jan. 2026
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But seizing current oil production is one thing; overhauling Venezuela's entire oil industry would be another.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Crews are also repairing roads in Topanga Canyon after the fire and ensuing rain damaged them and closed the community to outside traffic.—
CBS LA Staff,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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While generations of Chastain families kept struggling as farmers, their new family business of selling farm machinery and repairing silos did very well.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Since 2014, the Russian military has opened several military bases in the Arctic and worked on reconstructing airfields.—
Danica Kirka,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Computational algorithms then synchronize the data afterward, reconstructing a single, coherent image.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Dec. 2025
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These resolutions are a declaration of hope, an attempt at refreshing and refurbishing stale practices.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
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The money saved by refurbishing it and continuing to use it could then be put into the other state-of-the-art newer technology there, Connor said.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
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The pair moved a few years later, buying and renovating a hunting cabin in the Catskills in New York.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
14 Jan. 2026
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The building complex, known as Hudson’s Detroit, is owned by a real estate company of Rocket Companies chairman and billionaire Dan Gilbert, who has been purchasing and renovating properties in Detroit for more than a decade.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the videos, people are seen bandaging the head and patching an eye of another individual, while a voice says at least 10 people were killed by gunfire.—
Arsalan Shahla,
Fortune,
10 Jan. 2026
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Add a pass rusher with the first pick, a receiver in Round 2 and then spend heavily on patching holes in free agency.—
Jacob Robinson,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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On the Mauser Packaging Solutions plant floor, laborers do the dirty work of reconditioning steel containers used to transport chemicals.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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