retrofits

present tense third-person singular of retrofit
as in rebuilds
to provide (something) with new parts that were not available when it was originally built The factory has been retrofitted to meet the new safety regulations. We can retrofit your car with the new fuel system.

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Recent Examples of retrofits Where Gravis retrofits machines already on site, Monumental deploys its own fleet from scratch. Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 15 July 2026 Four years later, her company, DB Trucks, buys and builds water trucks, or retrofits trucks that customers own, for uses like construction sites and firefighting. Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 30 Sep. 2025 Schlott makes any necessary repairs and in the case of the general store phone, retrofits them with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology to enable calls. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
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  • Mason McTavish was the biggest exit, John Carlson turned out to be a rental and Jacob Trouba switched California rebuilds.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • True investigations, where somebody sits down and rebuilds a timeline across four systems, are a much smaller subset that almost nobody separates out.
    Sanjay Gidwani, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • Marie painstakingly builds the abbey into a regional power center to which notables must pay their respects.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Consistency builds recognition; nuance builds relevance, because copy-and-paste is a function, not a go-to-market strategy.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Retrofits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrofits. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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