JERRY-BUILDS Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

jerry-builds

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present tense third-person singular of jerry-build

as in rigs (up)

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When a system rebuilds a schedule or reroutes a workflow overnight, the executive who owns that outcome needs to see what moved and why.

— Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Soros network rebuilds progressive prosecutor push after string of election losses.

— , FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of rebuilds

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Two fuels, one engine At the heart of the demonstration is Amogy’s AMMDrive platform, which combines the company’s ammonia reformer with 2G Energy’s Agenitor 412 engine-generator.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
The result is labs like Sonic Jeel, which focuses on sonic cultures; the Anthro-tech Atelier, which combines anthropology and design; and xLab, which designs typefaces and electronic displays built for Arabic scripts.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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Where Gravis retrofits machines already on site, Monumental deploys its own fleet from scratch.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Four years later, her company, DB Trucks, buys and builds water trucks, or retrofits trucks that customers own, for uses like construction sites and firefighting.

— Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 30 Sep. 2025

Definition of retrofits

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In Catch the Devil, Pamela Colloff reconstructs Skalnik’s decades-long path of destruction in vivid detail, catching up with him in federal prison when his luck had run out.

— Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 25 July 2026
The brain compares the relative signal strength across these three channels and reconstructs something on the order of a million distinguishable colors.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of reconstructs

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Graham is the unabashed matriarch of the flock, who every year chooses the destination, books the hut, plans the menu, does meal prep, and designs the commemorative T-shirts.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 30 July 2026
Bryan Reisberg, who designs travel backpacks for dogs and shares stories of walking around New York carrying adoptable pets, will also be on the series.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 28 July 2026

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