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Recent Examples of retool
As usual, questions abound as the Hornets prepare to retool the roster following a 44-win campaign that concluded without ending the league’s longest current playoff drought.
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2026
Republicans are expected to retool the legislation to ensure the ballroom funding passes.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Fuqua was forced to retool the movie to center on the relationship between Michael Jackson and his controlling father, Joe Jackson, played by Colman Domingo.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
Fuqua had to retool the movie to be more about Michael's tense relationship with his father, Joe Jackson, amid his growing solo career.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2026
Republicans are expected to retool the legislation to ensure the ballroom funding passes.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Fuqua was forced to retool the movie to center on the relationship between Michael Jackson and his controlling father, Joe Jackson, played by Colman Domingo.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
Fuqua had to retool the movie to be more about Michael's tense relationship with his father, Joe Jackson, amid his growing solo career.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retool
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States now have a freer hand to rejigger boundaries of voting districts at all levels of government.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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The movie then had to push its release date and do reshoots to rejigger the story.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
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But while objections to the idea of engineering immunity to disease have remained essentially the same over the last two centuries, their meaning has changed, transforming what was once arguable into the lies that drive our current peril.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The Knicks' return to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999 has transformed each game into one of the hottest tickets in New York, attracting actors, musicians, athletes and other public figures eager to witness the action in person.—
Shafiq Najib,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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The apparent loss of the aircraft came after hostilities in the region escalated over the weekend, with Iran and Israel exchanging their first direct strikes in months late Sunday.—
Todd Symons,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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An armed intruder was shot and killed after entering a San Jacinto home and exchanging gunfire with the homeowner, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.—
Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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At the National Governors Association meeting in Colorado Springs last July, the investor Mark Cuban rhapsodized about the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize education.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
8 June 2026
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Renwick’s belief that athleticwear designers were for too long a time absorbed in making men’s lives easier — and efforts to reverse this pattern by turning its gaze towards women — completely revolutionized the industry, which is why the brand is a no-brainer addition to this article.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
4 June 2026
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California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment (CASE) argues that in forcing more than 90,000 workers to regularly commute to state offices, Newsom is violating the California Environmental Quality Act.—
Kassia Bonesteel,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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Warren in 2023 asked the Minnesota Board of Pardons to commute the remainder of his sentence and pave the way for his release after 30 years.—
Tom Olsen,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
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But the filmmaker’s imagination transfigures personal history into something not of this world, wholly original, and uniquely demented.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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“Retool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retool. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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