RETOOLED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

retooled

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past tense of retool

as in rejiggered

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As fashion increasingly embraces AI, its frontend and backend operations are getting transformed into a more accessible and connected ecosystem.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
The company credits him with helping guide major acquisitions that transformed Comcast from a small regional cable operator into an industry leader.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of transformed

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The two exchanged words and shoves as other players from both teams got involved.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2026
When a consumer chooses to control the TV through a voice service such as Amazon Alexa, data is exchanged between the TV, TCL’s cloud, and Amazon so the service can function.

— John Higgins, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2026

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By the time Disney World joined the party — and Dieter Hannig revolutionized the Mouse’s culinary offerings, liberating chefs and operators with license to create — the scene was already community-first.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026
And software security is the part of my job that has been both the most revolutionized and the most improved by AI.

— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2026

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Other prominent killers, including Scott Peterson and the Manson family members, received death sentences that were later commuted to life in prison.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
In 2024, when former President Joe Biden commuted 37 prisoners facing the death penalty, advocates from the ACLU to Catholic bishops called upon Newsom to do the same.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of commuted

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Despite the fact that slavery had been abolished, it was transmuted into a different form, one that America continued to exploit to expand its wealth and industry.

— Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
The regime transmuted its coercive force into political legitimacy through the spectacular destruction of dissident bodies, restoring reverence for the Eagle.

— Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

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