renovated

past tense of renovate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of renovated After lying dormant for over twenty years, the property has been completely renovated to make the space feel tasteful, modern, and comfortable while continuing to pay tribute to its deep archival roots. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026 Guedes has renovated old industrial buildings into mixed-use or housing, and has done several ground-up construction jobs in the Naugatuck Valley as well. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026 That restaurant took over and renovated the former Arby’s location vacated last year. — Teresa Stepzinski, Florida Times-Union, 20 Sep. 2026 More recently, the city completed several projects, including a new roof, walkway repairs, renovated family restrooms and a new Local History Room to house the Hialeah History Archive. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026 The building was originally constructed around 1930 and later renovated by developer Robert Siegel, who was also behind The Hubert in TriBeCa and The Jane Hotel in the West Village. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2026 Trump has long complained that the center is old and needs to be renovated. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026 To be unveiled on Friday, the Milan House of Dior doubles the space of the previous unit on Via Montenapoleone, which originally opened in 2001 and was renovated in 2012. — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026 During the closure, the location will be renovated into a business center, scheduled to open in spring 2027. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renovated
Verb
  • After being hurt, Mahomes didn’t wait for the swelling in his knee to go down before having the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lateral collateral ligament (LCL) in his left knee repaired.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Technology can increase efficiency, but trust must still be earned, safety felt and conflict repaired.
    — Kristina Aran, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • With the town motel still not having been rebuilt, John stays at Hal’s for the night, where feeding his carnivorous alien plant Earl helps the former hero’s demise truly set in.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The city determined in 2024 that the park was outdated and needed to be completely rebuilt.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • What happened—which can be reconstructed from messages that the agents sent one another and from traces of their own internal reasoning, known as chain-of-thought records—makes for gripping reading.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Their defense, which has been slightly reconstructed since last year, is tasked with trying to figure out the Texans, who came up just short against Buffalo in Week 1.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Take Ludwig, 2018, the artist’s first CGI video, which for eight minutes stays fixed on a single CGI blond boy who rolls around in the dark hold of a ship amid a storm.
    — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Three decades later, in 1983, McClintock was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery, which showed that genes are not fixed in place.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Renovated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renovated. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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