as in modification
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as in to redesign
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as in to reequip
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Recent Examples of refit
The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
15 Mar. 2026
The interior shows more flair than the average retro refit, such as the gold penny tiles underneath the bar.
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Cesar Hernandez,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
23 May 2025
There are lingering questions about how much financial sense the still-unsigned deal would make, given the costs of refitting the plane for presidential use and operating it over the long run — or even whether the plane could be ready for Mr. Trump to use before the end of his second term.
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Eric Lipton,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Noun
Three of its six destroyers and both its aircraft carriers were out of action, undergoing repairs or refits.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
15 Mar. 2026
The interior shows more flair than the average retro refit, such as the gold penny tiles underneath the bar.
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Cesar Hernandez,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
Depending on what was left of it after any spyware removal, it might be scrapped, refitted or passed over entirely.
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Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
23 May 2025
There are lingering questions about how much financial sense the still-unsigned deal would make, given the costs of refitting the plane for presidential use and operating it over the long run — or even whether the plane could be ready for Mr. Trump to use before the end of his second term.
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Eric Lipton,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refit
Noun
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Horvath said the county hopes to receive tens of millions of dollars in state funding for additional brush clearance, fuel modification, home hardening and other initiatives.
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These modifications are specific, positional and increasingly mappable.
Verb
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Companies that see meaningful value are nearly three times as likely to have redesigned their workflows first.
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The developer, Cal Coast, claims the city’s bureaucratic bottleneck delayed permits to redesign the site, leading to the collapse of a $68 million real estate deal.
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The 110th Brigade is helping to buy time for other brigades to reequip with heavier weaponry.
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The company will reequip its Amtrak Long Distance Network, considering ideas from as many as 10 manufacturers, according to Amtrak.
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The upward revision can be attributed to a downward revision on imports, which subtracts from GDP.
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Brian Duffield wrote the initial screenplay based off the short story by Phillip Fracassi, with revisions by Mollner.
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Ellis said the company has remodeled more than 115 restaurants and new restaurant openings are to come, including 25 locations in development across the country.
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Work ranged from repairing the roof and updating the heating and ventilation systems to remodeling the community workspaces and adding new study pods.
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Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, is accused of benefiting from access to multimillion-dollar U.K. homes that were paid for and refurnished by energy firms seeking government contracts in Nigeria.
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President Bill Clinton’s administration spent about $4 million - some from private donors - to refurnish interiors and expand IT systems for the digital age.
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But there was a third global transformation on their heels.
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The real attraction is the transformation itself.
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Hell of a town as one of our old anthems says, one that needs to be reworked these days.
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Nvidia engineers reworked cooling pathways across the entire server and created a system that uses a single liquid loop to cool multiple high-power components.
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“Refit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refit. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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