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repairing

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verb

present participle of repair

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Recent Examples of repairing
Verb
The case is unfolding more than three years after the couple bought their boat in Texas, worked together on repairing it and sailed along the southern coast before ending up in the Bahamas. Peter D'abrosca , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026 The luxury department store chain employs 1,500 people to provide tailoring and alternations, from hemming jeans and repairing rips to fitting suits and reworking evening gowns. Anne D’innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026 Only a handful of men still work for the company at Pennsuco, raising the few dozen calves and heifers and repairing the old tractors and backhoes. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026 Sokolnicki, who started repairing and restoring vehicles about a year ago, made his varsity debut this season and has been impressive so far. Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026 The 3,000-square-foot hub joins existing URCs in London and Amsterdam, repairing approximately 55,000 items a year for over 35 clothing brands and now employing 51 tailors. Fleur Britten, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2026 This serum is designed to leave your hair feeling shiny, smooth, and frizz-free while strengthening its strands and repairing breakage. Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026 The Prince recently indicated an interest in repairing his relationship with other family members too, according to CNN. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026 The City of Fort Worth says the work is focused on repairing deteriorating concrete along a high-traffic corridor to improve safety and reliability. Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repairing
Noun
  • At the time of the malfunction, seven workers and an inspector were on the bridge working on repairs.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Emergency sewer repairs are causing a major downtown Chicago road closure starting next week.
    Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Many people in Cambodia have dedicated their careers to protecting and restoring these essential plants.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The civil action demands a jury trial and for Norfleet to be reinstated as a lieutenant with the fire department, restoring his pension and other benefits.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But Piotr Siergiej, another environmentalist from the Polish Smog Alert, said the energy crisis caused by the Iran war should serve as a wake-up call to the Polish government about the urgency of fixing this program.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • TruKKer responded by fixing rates in an attempt to bring transparency to the market and prompt truck owners to bring down prices.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • While the company’s humble beginnings began as a simple mending solution, Vivolo believes the future of trims will be about integration between craftsmanship and technology.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Family ties may need some mending, and once they’ve been handled, those bonds could be immensely helpful.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The failure is its own, and painting this as the creative team not delivering, and alienating Gellar in the process, only makes reviving the franchise that much harder.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 8 Apr. 2026
  • An agenda item on the County Commission’s next meeting calls for a study on the costs and benefits of reviving Broward County Fire Rescue, which merged with the Broward Sheriff’s Office in 2003.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Centred on intimate portraits of women rebuilding their lives, the film follows individuals shaping a future in the shadow of a shared past.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2026
  • So are the Chiefs finally rebuilding?
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • To Coimbra, some key questions involved amalgamating real-life characters into fictionalized ones while still honoring victims and survivors, as well as faithfully recreating the look and feel of the time.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe recreating the moment with him as a joke in practice.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • These isotopic measurements, including ratios involving hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, are essential for reconstructing the planet’s history, such as the loss of water over time and ongoing chemical cycles within the atmosphere.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Understanding these building blocks is key to reconstructing how the universe evolved from the fiery hot plasma that permeated space after the Big Bang to the structured web of galaxies observed today.
    Mariangela Lisanti, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026

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