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Recent Examples of retool
Big payouts at banks CEOs of three the nation’s biggest banks got rewarded for yearslong efforts to retool their companies and revive a stagnant stock price.
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Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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.
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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.
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Jack Dunn,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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.
—
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
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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.
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The movie then had to push its release date and do reshoots to rejigger the story.
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This Mini Carey Crossbody Bag transforms from a crossbody bag to a clutch to a shoulder bag.
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New church Less than a generation later, the Protestant Reformation transformed Christianity, dividing Europe and spawning brutal violence.
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Clark stood her ground, the two exchanged words, and officials hit Clark with her fifth technical foul of the season.
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Cellphone video verified by NBC News shows someone in fatigues-style clothing appearing to exchange rounds with police.
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In a recent interview, Jenny Bates Heaton, new Tedx speaker and a former Fortune 500 organizational development executive, shared how grounding individual and systemic decisions in authentic values can revolutionize the corporate ecosystem.
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This change has fundamentally revolutionized the pace of innovation—shifting us away from incremental advances and toward more rapid, system-level transformations across science and engineering.
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Because of travel restrictions, the Iranian team has been based in Tijuana, Mexico – a stone’s throw from the US border – throughout the tournament and is commuting to the United States for games, drawing complaints from Iran’s coach and players.
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Like most of the 50-odd boys on the field, Désir commutes a long distance several days a week to play in peace at Parc Sainte-Thérèse, an arena with artificial turf in the hillside suburb of Pétionville.
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But the filmmaker’s imagination transfigures personal history into something not of this world, wholly original, and uniquely demented.
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Altman is the defendant in the case brought by Musk, who’s claiming that OpenAI illegally betrayed the company’s non-profit founding by transfiguring into a for-profit company last year.
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“Retool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retool. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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