RETOOLING Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

retooling

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present participle of retool

as in rejiggering

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Giants special assistant Ron Wotus considered Vitello’s first-inning ejection by umpire Alan Porter last Friday so unfair that he got kicked out the following day while exchanging lineup cards.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
At the time, purchasing teams spent an extraordinary amount of effort exchanging emails, updating spreadsheets and manually tracking order status.

— Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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His works often explore the relationship between function and visual storytelling, transforming everyday tools into objects with strong mechanical identity.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
Few people on the continent seem to recognize that multibillion investments by US companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Amazon in space, and their many imitators in China, are radically transforming spaceflight.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

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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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Why is revolutionizing college education necessary or desirable?

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
In their discussions, economists and policymakers debated the regulatory challenges in a world where tokenization is revolutionizing how financial assets are held and transferred.

— Maria Eloisa Capurro, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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That bite and raw intensity produce some of the album’s standout moments, transmuting jungle’s physicality across a wide emotional range with poetic verve and Nia’s woody, vulnerable, yet strident timbre.

— Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
Afterwards, group members went on to form several other hugely meaningful outfits such as Slint, Gastr Del Sol, Bastro, Papa M and the For Carnation, transmuting Squirrel Bait’s Reagan-era aggression into more esoteric, impossible-to-classify sonic explorations.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 June 2026

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