retool

verb

Definition of retoolnext
as in to rejigger

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Recent Examples of retool His appointment offers stability as DMPS undertakes a massive $265 million initiative to retool education as enrollment dwindles. — Samantha Hernandez, Des Moines Register, 15 Sep. 2026 To comply, states would have to retool their processes for printing and mailing ballots, a potentially expensive process that might be difficult to achieve quickly. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Purchasing facilities such as the Rosslyn plant can enable automakers to retool existing factories rather than build new ones from scratch. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 That forced the filmmakers to retool much of the story, though Fogelson said that some of the material that was cut could be used in the sequel. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for retool
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retool
  1. rejigger
  2. transform
  3. exchange
  4. revolutionize
  5. commute
  6. transfigure
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  • The apparel and shoe giant is making plans to rejigger its China operations, including a new Asia-Pacific plan to move the Greater China out of China to Singapore.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of rejigger
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  • Since then, a growing movement across North America is attempting to transform ecological menaces into culinary commodities, from Florida to Hawai’i, British Columbia, Maine, and the Mississippi River basin.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Sabbagh predicts this could transform the space industry from having less than 10 million users of mobile satellite services to being able to reach billions of users.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of transform
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  • Also Friday, Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war for the first time since August.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Some even exchanged information across environments designed to keep them isolated.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • Balenciaga was best known for revolutionizing a new silhouette for women, creating something more freeing that would allow women of the day to wear his designs sans-corset.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Holmes founded Theranos, a blood-testing startup that promised to revolutionize medical testing, in 2003.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of revolutionize
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  • Assembly Republican Leader Alexandra Macedo, R-Tulare, did not explicitly say that the governor should hold off on commuting sentences, but urged him to consider the parents who had to bury their children before making the decision.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • State employees aren't reimbursed for commuting to their regular workplace.
    — Tyler Horst, CBS News, 15 Oct. 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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“Retool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retool. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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