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as in transforming
to change in form, appearance, or use
the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center
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as in ceding
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
made the deed over to his daughter
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as in remodeling
to make different in some way
just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general
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Recent Examples of making over
Teen Wolf, released in August 1985, was poorly received by critics, but was a financial success, making over $30 million on its $4 million budget.
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Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
For seasoned cooks and kitchen novices, cookbook author and nutritionist Robin Miller takes it back to basics with great, family-friendly recipes worth making over and over again.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Anyone making over that amount pays no additional tax.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
More than a decade later, the company has scaled to making over $300 million in lifetime revenue—proving just how success can come from unlikely ventures.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
Murillo of Nottingham Forest topped the league for clearances made in 24/25 with 249, with only six other players making over 200.
—James Nalton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Managers, truck drivers, and sales workers also had a hefty portion of non-bachelor degree-holding workers making over $100,000.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Pino has spent his entire senior career with Villarreal, making over 150 appearances for the La Liga club since his debut in 2020.
—David Ornstein, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
And while people making over $100,000 are the most likely Americans to drink, many fewer of them are doing it in 2025 than in 2023—a drop from 79 percent to 66 percent.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2025
Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
For seasoned cooks and kitchen novices, cookbook author and nutritionist Robin Miller takes it back to basics with great, family-friendly recipes worth making over and over again.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Anyone making over that amount pays no additional tax.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
More than a decade later, the company has scaled to making over $300 million in lifetime revenue—proving just how success can come from unlikely ventures.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
Murillo of Nottingham Forest topped the league for clearances made in 24/25 with 249, with only six other players making over 200.
—James Nalton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Managers, truck drivers, and sales workers also had a hefty portion of non-bachelor degree-holding workers making over $100,000.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Pino has spent his entire senior career with Villarreal, making over 150 appearances for the La Liga club since his debut in 2020.
—David Ornstein, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
And while people making over $100,000 are the most likely Americans to drink, many fewer of them are doing it in 2025 than in 2023—a drop from 79 percent to 66 percent.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for making over
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The e-note is now home to pogo pins for effortless attachment and connectivity to a keyboard cover, transforming the device into a 2-in-1 ePaper workstation.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Oct. 2025
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Instead of concealing them, Ban’s shutters filter light and create privacy—transforming utilitarian design into art.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
24 Oct. 2025
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The confederacy of tribes was pressured into ceding lands to the state of New York, and further displaced by ensuing frontier settlement.—
Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
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Now, Middleton has returned to public duties and ceding the spotlight is apparently been hard for Queen Camilla.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
18 Oct. 2025
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Kelly Emerson, senior designer at Aidan Design in Silver Spring, Maryland, finds that this reads early 2000s, and Dallen Russell, remodeling advisor at InSite Builders & Remodeling in Bethesda, Maryland, agrees.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
8 Oct. 2025
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The program, which is estimated to initially cost the brand about $1 billion, involves remodeling more than 1,000 Starbucks locations in the US and Canada over the next year along with closing more than 400 in the last three months.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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In another development, researchers in Canada have discovered a previously unknown bacterium capable of converting food waste into renewable natural gas, which opens new opportunities for carbon-neutral fuel production.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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Miami-Dade College took control in 2005, fully restoring the building and converting it into its current form as a home for the college’s cultural programs.—
Douglas Markowitz,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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By refusing to specify details of the case, the government keeps the possibility alive of changing their reasoning or their claims to have the same effect for different reasons—just as the mob changes its reasoning for killing Cinna.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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Of course, the heaviest anti-Shannon edit came from Sage, who noticed everything from the register of Shannon’s voice changing to her adversary being a giant shark wearing a cute seal mask.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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As the wearer walks, these nodes slide up and down, basically transferring the topography of the ground through the shoes to stimulate the foot.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Oct. 2025
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OpenAI proposes to become a public benefit corporation (PBC), transferring the nonprofit’s ownership of OpenAI’s technology to the for-profit arm, lifting the profit caps for investors, and doing away with the nonprofit’s oversight.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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The habitat-modifying keystone species play a vital role in the region’s ecosystem supporting the health and dispersal of wildlife and other native plants.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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The researchers plan to address the light sensitivity issue by modifying how the vitamin interacts with the electrolyte and by improving the engineering of the flow cell itself.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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Don't give your friend the extra task of assigning you a task.—
Marielle Segarra,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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On July 29, the Red Sox tried again, signing six-year veteran Chadwick Tromp to a minor league contract and assigning him to Triple-A Worcester.—
Jon Vankin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Making over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/making%20over. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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