retooled

verb

past tense of retool
as in rejiggered

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  1. transformed
  2. exchanged
  3. revolutionized
  4. commuted
  5. transmuted
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  • The city and the Earthquakes, San Jose’s hometown Major League Soccer club, transformed the square into a weeks-long festival.
    — Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
  • The Fan Village in Rockefeller Center will have programming on game day, with the rink transformed into a temporary pitch.
    — Ali Farooqui, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
Definition of transformed
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  • The model exchanged vows with singer Matty Healy in Los Angeles on July 18, and one of her three bridal ensembles broke this major tradition.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 22 July 2026
  • New York Yankees shortstop José Caballero was at the center of a tense scene on Monday night — one in which benches cleared, words were exchanged, but no punches were thrown.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of exchanged
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  • Geisel is one such figure, a man with a meteoric rise who revolutionized children’s literature and danced across many sides of political controversy.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 July 2026
  • The cannabis banking ecosystem is evolving, but it is not being revolutionized overnight.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of revolutionized
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  • Trump later pardoned or commuted the sentences of virtually all defendants involved in the riot.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • Trump commuted their prison sentences, but they were not covered by the president’s mass pardons.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of commuted
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  • But the fields that sloped toward the turquoise sea weren’t about to be cultivated with the vines of Merlot grapes or Regona cider apple trees or even acorns to be transmuted into jamón Ibérico.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 3 June 2026
  • When presented as a wall installation, the pages are transmuted into an object signifying nothing but the imitation of writing by a depersonalized other.
    — Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Definition of transmuted
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