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as in restoring
to bring back to a former condition or vigor
it will take some time to repair your energy after a bout with the flu
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as in fixing
to put into good shape or working order again
having trouble finding someone who repairs audio components
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Recent Examples of repairing
Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
That included removing, repairing and replacing the building’s tin roof tiles — which look like clay — and maintaining the original window casings, matching the stucco and preserving quirks like porthole windows.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
The company focuses on installing, maintaining and repairing HVAC systems to help customers stay comfortable in New England's changing seasons.
—Community's Choice Awards, The Providence Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
The program is expected to address the more than 32,000 street light service requests by modernizing or repairing them.
—City News Service, Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
Assessing winter damage, repairing trouble spots, amending soil, planting wisely, and protecting your investment form the backbone of a successful year in the vegetable patch.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
While Milamore’s core business is its signature Kintsugi collection — inspired by the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold — zodiac pieces have also proved popular, particularly among certain signs, according to Inaki.
—Milena Lazazzera, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
But millions of other agricultural producers do, says Dana DiPrima, founder of the For Farmers Movement, which provides financial support to small and medium-sized farms that need help repairing equipment, recovering from natural disasters, expanding operations or maintaining productive land.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
The Local Control Funding Formula, which funds California schools, is intended to support classroom instruction and student services, not major capital needs such as replacing aging HVAC systems, repairing roofs or modernizing classrooms.
—Ben Churchill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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
That included removing, repairing and replacing the building’s tin roof tiles — which look like clay — and maintaining the original window casings, matching the stucco and preserving quirks like porthole windows.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
The company focuses on installing, maintaining and repairing HVAC systems to help customers stay comfortable in New England's changing seasons.
—Community's Choice Awards, The Providence Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
The program is expected to address the more than 32,000 street light service requests by modernizing or repairing them.
—City News Service, Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
Assessing winter damage, repairing trouble spots, amending soil, planting wisely, and protecting your investment form the backbone of a successful year in the vegetable patch.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
While Milamore’s core business is its signature Kintsugi collection — inspired by the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold — zodiac pieces have also proved popular, particularly among certain signs, according to Inaki.
—Milena Lazazzera, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
But millions of other agricultural producers do, says Dana DiPrima, founder of the For Farmers Movement, which provides financial support to small and medium-sized farms that need help repairing equipment, recovering from natural disasters, expanding operations or maintaining productive land.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
The Local Control Funding Formula, which funds California schools, is intended to support classroom instruction and student services, not major capital needs such as replacing aging HVAC systems, repairing roofs or modernizing classrooms.
—Ben Churchill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repairing
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The $60 million bond would fund major renovations to three elementary schools, along with repairs and upgrades to more than 20 other facilities across the district.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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Consumers have held out hope for a reopening of the strait and a relatively speedy recovery, but facility repairs could stretch on for months and choke off fuel supply in the meantime.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Missile stocks can be burned down quickly in a high-end campaign, and restoring them remains a significant industrial challenge.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Royals will work alongside Estévez to refine his pitching mechanics in hopes of restoring his velocity.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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Other cases produced substantial recoveries in antitrust and wage-fixing matters, and the firm has brought many first-of-its-kind cases applying class-action law to new and emerging areas.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Doing your job, even if that job requires fixing his mistakes, isn’t enabling.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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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
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Visitors can try their hand at skills such as block printing, moss wall art, and Japanese sashiko mending.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Jan. 2026
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Several organizations said during a Capitol Hill briefing last week that reviving the Congressional Nigeria Caucus — which went dormant several years ago — was their primary legislative goal.—
Adrian Elimian,
semafor.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Love guested on Corgan’s podcast, The Magnificent Others, and reviving Woodstock ’94–era beef seemed as good a thing to talk about as that Hole reunion Love keeps edging us with.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2026
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After completing another rebuilding job at TCU, Campbell now has a chance to lead the Horned Frogs to the Final Four in the place where everything started.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Post found a franchise that lagged behind innovative industry leaders and remained stuck in the middle ground between going all-in for a championship and rebuilding its roster without ever fully committing to either.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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Reske appears uninterested in fetishizing or recreating his past, and that’s probably for the best.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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His reputation for meticulous period work will be central to recreating the world Wong Howe inhabited across more than five decades in Hollywood, from the silent era through the Golden Age of cinema.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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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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Archaeologist Eric Cline has spent his career forensically reconstructing why, and the answer is far stranger and more unsettling than a single catastrophic event.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Repairing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repairing. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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