replumb

as in to remeasure

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Recent Examples of replumb California water officials are poised to release the first environmental review of a controversial project to replumb the delta — a plan in the works for decades that has alternately been called a water grab or a critical update to shore up state supplies. Rachel Becker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2022 Named for a president eager to replumb the West, Roosevelt Dam was completed in 1911, one year before Arizona became a state. Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replumb
Verb
  • Enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act required UPS to remeasure its UPS IBT Pension plan at current discount rates, which have increased since the previous measurement date.
    Walter Loeb, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Petco groundskeepers may want to remeasure the distance from the plate to the fence.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
Verb
  • The nine-city tour will span the U.S. and Europe with the grand finale taking place in Las Vegas on July 26.
    Caché McClay, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • Devices vary, spanning every model of smartphone and tablet.
    Vinayak S, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.
    Mark Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • That facility can scale up to 1 million square feet, which would translate into about 40,000 garments.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Green gage plums Green gage plums were my father’s favorite and are thought to have originated in Armenia.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Early voting data is being analyzed to better predict the outcome of the election, with different trends being pulled out to gage a better understanding of whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris will be victorious on November 5.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Planning groups remain the city’s best tool to gauge neighborhood sentiment.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • But in the past two weeks, Suggs reached out to at least one real estate executive to gauge interest in hosting a fundraiser for the mayor’s reelection bid, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • And the authors, who were in their late 20s and early 30s when the show was new, seem to have been skittish about plumbing their caver’s scarier emotions.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The German composer, whose work often plumbed the ancient past, came across them in 1934.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Replumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replumb. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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