refurbishing

present participle of refurbish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of refurbishing That’s how artist Hadley Clark approaches reinventing and refurbishing textiles. Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025 According to the archdiocese, a parish employee discovered the potentially inappropriate websites while refurbishing the computer and reported the findings to the archdiocese's Pastoral Center, which is essentially the church's human resources department. Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025 The company is already refurbishing an EAF to melt the sponge iron and adding new conversion furnaces for downstream steelmaking, all designed to drop in once the hydrogen is flowing. Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025 Batt said Michigan State has signed a new concession deal with an outside provider, completed new, bigger scoreboards in the football stadium and is refurbishing its luxury boxes, all with an eye on generating more income. Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025 The Air Force has been refurbishing World War II-era bases deeper in the Pacific and practicing operating from austere airstrips. Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refurbishing
Verb
  • But this White House is, in some ways, rebuilding the 20th-century model, in which powerful and faceless aides steered executives by controlling paperflow.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The o-line needs rebuilding (again), the d line still needs work, especially with Trey leaving.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For decades, regenerative medicine has held the promise of repairing the body at its deepest level — not simply masking symptoms, but addressing the root causes of decline, injury, and disease.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The village’s environment department is repairing treatment plants, restoring watersheds and working on accessing federal aid.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But then the country reassessed the risk of being so close to the front line, and invested a lot in things like renovating and expanding its network of bomb shelters.
    Teri Schultz, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • At the Port of New York & New Jersey, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is requesting its own proposals from domestic and international port operators alike on renovating the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT).
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025

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