RETOOL Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

retool

verb

Definition of retool

as in to rejigger

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Recent Examples of retool Despite overcoming early battery recalls to post record sales figures, GM retired the hatchback to retool its factory for electric trucks and sunset its aging battery platform. — New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026 Ford will invest $500 million in its Windsor operations and $400 million to retool the Oakville Assembly complex. — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 20 July 2026 Client travel funds dried up during the 2008 financial crisis, and of course many advisors were forced to either close, sell or retool their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. — Jacques Ledbetter, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Politicians on both sides of the aisle will have to retool their approaches accordingly. — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for retool

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Bipartisan legislation under review in Congress has the potential to significantly rejigger global drug development — and the biggest beneficiaries may not be American.

— Pavle Vukojevic, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026
Companies take time to rejigger their workflows and update their systems.

— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026

Definition of rejigger

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That approach could transform the concept from a conventional tank into an autonomous, high-power battlefield platform.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
This is related to the new trust economy that is transforming the way buying decisions are made.

— Michelle Mekky, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of transform

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After all, that was the group that revolutionized last year’s offense from strong but static to unpredictable and setting a league-wide trend with 13 personnel and dominated on play-action and in the run game with defenses consistently compromised.

— Nate Atkins, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Needless to say, when Kelly returned, the NYPD was indeed reinvented and revolutionized.

— Chris Wragge, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of revolutionize

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Several assistant coaches who planned to go with Kiffin to LSU stayed on with the Rebels and commuted back and forth.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
Of course, most vehicles spend far more time commuting, running errands and sitting in city traffic than crossing several states.

— Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of commute

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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
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.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 7 May 2026

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