RETOOL Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

retool

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Definition of retool

as in to rejigger

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Recent Examples of retool Fuqua thus had to retool his entire movie, which had significantly focused on Jackson’s allegations prior to the shakeup. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026 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. — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026 The Smuggler’s Run ride in Anaheim recently got retooled to cross-promote the movie. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 26 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 See All Example Sentences for retool

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Companies take time to rejigger their workflows and update their systems.

— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
States now have a freer hand to rejigger boundaries of voting districts at all levels of government.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of rejigger

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Task-specific intelligence, multi-modal sensing and real-time computing can transform the speed and agility with which companies can sense and respond to their external environment.

— Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
For the three-day event, Cal Expo transformed into an X Games hub, where some of the world’s best BMX bike, skateboard and motocross athletes competed across 18 events.

— Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of transform

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An autonomous logistics platform may need to exchange live telemetry between factories, vehicles, weather systems, inventory databases and financial software simultaneously.

— Ivo Ivanov, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
The lawyers also requested that the state and federal governments preserve all evidence related to use-of-force incidents, including all video footage, incident reports, and messages exchanged among staff during the incident.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026

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This rich feedback strengthens merchant judgment, transforming the customer relationship into an ongoing dialogue and revolutionizing how brands truly learn about their products in the real world.

— Angela Chan-Danisi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Brent Stubbs, the facility’s chief administrative officer, compared the advanced tech to construction equipment, washing machines and other advancements that revolutionized human labor.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of revolutionize

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After serving just one match of that ban against Armenia, FIFA’s disciplinary committee commuted the final two games of his suspension to a one-year probation period, citing his historically clean record.

— Wayne Sterling, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Its elastic Nap smocking and lighter-than-air fabric stay comfortable all the while — even when commuting in 90-degree weather.

— Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 2 July 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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