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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
Get a degree Even without a college degree, Rivers was doing well in tech, making over $70,000 a year, first at Amazon Web Services and later as a support engineer at a startup.
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Calmatters, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
Nationwide, 77% of those earning less than $50,000 a year got money back, compared to 35% of those making over $200,000.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026
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, 4 Feb. 2026
Any player in that group making over $3 million AAV is probably inefficient management procurement.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Despite the third one making over $1 billion globally, Cameron is still concerned about whether a fourth film would be approved by Disney.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
As enforcement budgets have declined, audits of people making over $1 million have fallen more than 80 percent in the last decade.
—Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Anyone making over that amount pays no additional tax.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Calmatters, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
Nationwide, 77% of those earning less than $50,000 a year got money back, compared to 35% of those making over $200,000.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026
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, 4 Feb. 2026
Any player in that group making over $3 million AAV is probably inefficient management procurement.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Despite the third one making over $1 billion globally, Cameron is still concerned about whether a fourth film would be approved by Disney.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
As enforcement budgets have declined, audits of people making over $1 million have fallen more than 80 percent in the last decade.
—Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Anyone making over that amount pays no additional tax.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for making over
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And a look at how the Texas football schedule is transforming validates the math.—
David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
10 Feb. 2026
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Headquartered in Boston with a studio in Washington, DC, Dane Austin Design specializes in luxury residential projects throughout North America, transforming its clients’ spaces into joyful environments.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2026
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Stalin invaded in November of 1939, expecting a quick takeover, but the Finns inflicted many times more casualties on the Soviets before eventually ceding 11 percent of their territory and partial control over their foreign affairs.—
Boris Fishman,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2026
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Maybe these choices aren’t driven by a fear of ceding audience attention to TikTok so much as by fear of letting a taut story go slack.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2026
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The district also considered limitations to remodeling or rebuilding.—
Alec Johnson,
jsonline.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Trump has made remaking and remodeling the Kennedy Center a higher priority in his second term than was perhaps expected.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Feb. 2026
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Korean researchers have demonstrated a new method for producing jet fuel by converting landfill gas originating from food waste and manure into liquid fuel.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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The princess took advantage of the spacious Kensington Palace home, converting its top floor into a playground for her two young sons.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
5 Feb. 2026
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Photons, for example, can bounce off an atom and carry off positional information about it without changing the quantum state of the system.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Feb. 2026
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Al Flowers, who has lived on King Drive for about four years but has stayed in the area nearly his entire life, wants neighbors to continue to host public meetings about future developments to ensure residents like himself have a voice in how the area is changing.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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The 6-foot-2 guard/forward is in his first season with the Cougars after transferring from Andrean last spring.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Few knew what kind of influence the 7-4 center would have after transferring from Boston and missing a year because of a knee injury.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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One confidant reportedly told a source that Bass was not truthful in her public statements about her lack of involvement and warned her that modifying the report could harm her politically.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Feb. 2026
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By targeting the underlying neuronal degeneration, ER-100 is positioned as a potential disease-modifying treatment rather than a symptomatic fix.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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Like other participants, the Mantic AI had to answer 60 questions by assigning probabilities to certain outcomes.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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If, as seems to be generally accepted, the Biden administration allowed some 15 million immigrants into the country, assigning 1,000 judges to their hearings and having each hear five cases a day would result in the process taking about 10 years to complete.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Making over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/making%20over. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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