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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retooled
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In short, Might Gaine is an anime that asks the age-old question of what if Batman were a Japanese teenager with an arsenal of sentient trains that transformed into robots.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
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Known for iconic roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and All the President's Men, Redford leaves behind a legacy that transformed both Hollywood and independent film.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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As a public institution, UVU upholds First Amendment rights and fosters an environment where ideas – popular or controversial – can be exchanged freely, energetically, and civilly.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
15 Sep. 2025
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Last September, when news broke that another friend of Kraus’s, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, had exchanged intimate texts with Kennedy, Kraus wrote a Substack post accusing Nuzzi of ensnaring Kennedy and insulted her looks on Instagram.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Antibiotics, the miracle drugs that revolutionized medicine in the 20th century, are rapidly losing their power.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Customer Service Customer service stands to be revolutionized by AI through personalized interactions at scale.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Nowadays, these routes and addresses can sometimes call to my mind the Camino Real—the old Spanish road lost and buried but commuted upon daily—or that mythic expanse of the Mediterranean where Odysseus lost his way and people live and work to this day.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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His sentence was commuted to a year by the king and he was released on parole after six months in detention.—
Panarat Thepgumpanat,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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All would be transmuted, lightly, into fiction.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Nuclear reactors, where heavy elements were transmuted into lighter ones, released antineutrinos that could be absorbed by atomic nuclei outside of the reactor, leading to their discovery.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
28 Aug. 2025
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