as in repairing
to put into good shape or working order again
will have to renovate the house extensively before we can move in
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Recent Examples of renovating
Nevertheless, Fisch will have ended up proud of his squad after renovating his coaching staff in the off-season.
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Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
The airport has brought in a company to build a new private terminal on hallowed ground, renovating what was once the historic Pan Am headquarters building.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
The president, who spent decades in the real estate business before running for president, has spent the early months of his second term renovating the White House.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
Whether the firm is renovating a historic home or designing a breezy beach retreat, functionality is a key part of every design, and principals Cecily Mendell and Sarah Holahan have become known for their ability to translate their clients’ personal styles and stories into timeless residences.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Among renovating homeowners who plan to stay in the home 11 or more years, Baby Boomers accounted for 66%, and seniors accounted for 62% of respondents.
—Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
From 1998 until last year, when Kansas played four home games at Arrowhead while renovating its stadium, 23 major colleges contests were played here, including five Big 12 Championship Games.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
In the meantime, she’s been busy renovating her property, completing mainly aesthetic and functional tasks, such as upgrading the electrical system, repainting the walls and adding laundry facilities.
—Silvia Marchetti, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Draft one was just to mark the action of renovating the building.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
The airport has brought in a company to build a new private terminal on hallowed ground, renovating what was once the historic Pan Am headquarters building.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
The president, who spent decades in the real estate business before running for president, has spent the early months of his second term renovating the White House.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
Whether the firm is renovating a historic home or designing a breezy beach retreat, functionality is a key part of every design, and principals Cecily Mendell and Sarah Holahan have become known for their ability to translate their clients’ personal styles and stories into timeless residences.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Among renovating homeowners who plan to stay in the home 11 or more years, Baby Boomers accounted for 66%, and seniors accounted for 62% of respondents.
—Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
From 1998 until last year, when Kansas played four home games at Arrowhead while renovating its stadium, 23 major colleges contests were played here, including five Big 12 Championship Games.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
In the meantime, she’s been busy renovating her property, completing mainly aesthetic and functional tasks, such as upgrading the electrical system, repainting the walls and adding laundry facilities.
—Silvia Marchetti, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Draft one was just to mark the action of renovating the building.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renovating
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The brand’s signature protein-repairing peptide simultaneously takes a journey into the individual hair shaft to repair any damage, helping tackle a lack of volume on a long-term basis.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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For three decades, the shuttles flew 135 missions critical to helping astronauts reach space, constructing the International Space Station and launching, recovering and repairing satellites.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
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How To Stop Paying Isolation Tax Making an intentional effort toward connection can help you get started on rebuilding your social safety net.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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On the other hand, once opportunities are lost and talent is dispersed, rebuilding takes far more time and resources.—
Zeynep Hasgül,
The Conversation,
12 Sep. 2025
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Replit just launched Agent 3, their most autonomous agent yet, capable of testing and fixing code, building custom agents, and automating complex workflows across tasks.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Dead zones in your house can be frustrating, especially when streaming or gaming, but the TP-Link RE715X does a solid job fixing that.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 2025
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These features are vital for reconstructing how early whales sensed their surroundings, hunted, and moved through the water.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Aug. 2025
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Like detectives reconstructing a crime scene or archaeologists inferring the entire shape of a pot from a minimal number of fragments, scholars of historical linguistics figure out the earlier forms that must have given rise to words in many different languages and connect the dots between them.—
Martha Barnette
August 6,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
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