making over

present participle of make over
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Recent Examples of making over The Army is trying to reverse that reputation by making over a select number of dining halls with tasty, nutritious meals. Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2026 Sacramento could get under the first apron and tax moving on from DeRozan, but would lack real flexibility without being able to move on from LaVine or Sabonis, the latter of whom is making over $94 million combined over the next two seasons. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 Even those who have been considered rich for making over $100,000 are resorting to penny-pinching habits. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 June 2026 Among shoppers making over $150,000, adoption rose to just under 13%. Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 1 June 2026 As smaller and mid-sized farms continue to decline, large-scale farms making over $1 million have increased. Mikayla Price, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Those making over $1 million would pay a greater share to increase funding for public services and invest in housing, education and infrastructure. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026 For Notre Dame, this is one of the benefits of taking single-digit transfers each cycle as opposed to making over half the roster. Pete Sampson, New York Times, 7 May 2026 And Van Wagoner doesn’t want humans to be forgotten in the rush to automate and turn decision-making over to machines. Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for making over
Verb
  • Artificial intelligence is transforming leadership, but perhaps not in the ways most people imagine.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This is the web version of Fortune Gulf Brief, a weekly newsletter providing smart coverage on the capital, leaders, and policies transforming one of the world’s most consequential regions.
    Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Kremer has allowed 12 home runs in seven starts this year, avoiding a home run in only one of those turns and ceding multiple homers in three of them.
    Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Republicans are defending a razor-thin House majority, and can afford to lose just two seats without ceding control of the lower chamber to Democrats.
    Fin Daniel Gómez, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The teams who equipped a workforce instead of remodeling a house.
    Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Fox was taken over by a consortium of filmmakers led by Jason Reitman, who is working on remodeling the venue and has opened it to screenings this summer in advance of the remodeling as the Director’s Village.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • The issue for the Heat is spacing, not necessarily 3-point shooting, of which the Heat have many players capable of converting.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That’s converting a loss into an erasure, and erasures are much cheaper to correct than silent errors.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • He was rushed to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, where doctors restarted his heart before transferring him to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London for specialist care.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026
  • These refillable travel atomizers solve all three problems by transferring your favorite scent into a slim, TSA-friendly bottle that barely takes up any room.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Hiring patterns also are changing, said Nela Richardson, ADP’s chief economist.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The months-long delay, barring a settlement, has added to industry angst given how rapidly the marketplace keeps changing due to tech and audience shifts.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of assigning the entire calculation to the quantum processor, QC Ware split the workflow between classical and quantum systems.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That means assigning the right people, enough budget and clear accountability.
    Ozan Ozerk, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Kim also accused the United States of enabling Japan’s military buildup by supplying Tomahawk missiles, modifying vessels for their operation and supporting the missile tests.
    Reuters, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Kan highlights cautious optimism from new diagnostic blood tests and disease-modifying drugs, and stresses lifestyle changes as the most accessible path to brain health.
    Sue Peschin, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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“Making over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/making%20over. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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