RETOOL Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

retool

verb

Definition of retool

as in to rejigger

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Recent Examples of retool The Mets let stars such as Pete Alonso and Edwin Díaz leave via free agency last offseason, and president of baseball operations David Stearns’ plan to retool has missed the mark — at least in the short term. — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 31 July 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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Even Stephen Curry, who transformed himself into an NBA all-time great through endless lonely work on his shooting, had recently asked Tiafoe the question in a casual chat.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Combining two of the three largest US carriers would transform the country’s aviation industry to such an extent that many analysts predicted regulators would never clear such a deal.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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During a Tuesday night press briefing, Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman stated that the officer and Smith exchanged gunfire near North 38th and West Wright streets − a claim the family is disputing after reviewing body camera footage.

— April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2026
After the cash was exchanged, prosecutors said, police arrested Diiorio and she was booked into the Camden County jail.

— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

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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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Plus Williams has heard stories from relatives, including her grandfather, who was commuting to work at New York’s World Trade Center when it was struck.

— Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
But only hours before the call, Dadakis decided against commuting to Manhattan and instead took the call from his Greenwich home.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 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
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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