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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retooled
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And the player base itself has transformed.—
Steve Skinner,
Sportico.com,
31 Jan. 2026 -
The deaths of Pretti and Renee Good on January 7 have transformed the heated national debate on immigration enforcement.—
Whitney Wild,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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The twosome exchanged airblown kisses at the end in a nod to their friendship and mutual diva respect.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
31 Jan. 2026
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The scuffles came amid an already intense night, with tensions fueled by a brutal press conference on Thursday for the title fight between Lopez and Stevenson, during which the boxers exchanged insults about each other’s family members.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2026
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Brady, now 48, wanted modern NFL fans to understand how much those vintage 49ers revolutionized football and shaped him as a player growing up in California.—
Daniel Brown,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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The Thing revolutionized horror special effects and offers a brutally honest portrait of the results of paranoia and exhaustion when the unknown becomes inescapable.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
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Hidden Figures book author Margot Lee Shetterly wrote that Johnson actually commuted with neighbor Eunice Smith, who lived three blocks down from her.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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Trump commuted the sentence of Zuberi, a fundraiser and venture capitalist, after he was convicted of crimes that partially stemmed from a $900,000 donation his company Avenue Ventures made to Trump’s first inaugural committee in 2017.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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That chapter taught us that even our pain can be transmuted into power.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
30 Dec. 2025
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American narratives about racial prejudice, immigration, and injustice have been transmuted into the just-different-enough context of Catholic versus Protestant battle lines.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
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“Retooled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retooled. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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