How to Use fix it in a Sentence

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  • But the politicians don’t have the will or courage to fix it.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • So if the league’s not broken, there’s no need to fix it.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But with no funds to fix it, the school remained open for years.
    Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Their paths cross when Paris wrecks her mom’s car and doesn’t have the money to fix it.
    refinery29.com, 1 June 2023
  • One of the first rules of TV is: if something’s working, don’t fix it.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Here is how to identify what is wrong and how to fix it.
    Michael Snyder Pedro Kok, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • And there is no question that Congress needs to fix it.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Lauren Goode: Or maybe AI is going to fix it all for us.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But Kang wouldn’t give her good corrections on how to fix it.
    Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
  • Politicians don’t have the guts to fix it because there’d be losers as well as winners.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • In other words, the business model is broken, and no one seems to have a clear idea of how to fix it.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There was a malfunction at the house security gate, and Don got out of the car to fix it.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • But that will depend on what went wrong, what might be needed to fix it and when the FAA grants a new launch license.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 12 July 2024
  • Crews worked before the games to fix it, and a contractor’s level showed that the rim was indeed flat.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Nobody can tell you how to fix it, because it can’t be fixed, only lived through.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The hope is that this extreme recoil is a bug and that the dev team will fix it up within the next few hours to make these weapons usable.
    Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The cost to fix it: $1,400. Advertisement Myra turned to Neuty.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The family snagged an old scoreboard from a city rink, and asked a friend who is an electrician to fix it.
    Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Everyone had an opinion, most of which boiled down to: The current system is flawed, time to fix it.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • If there is a hole or tear in your hose, use a water hose repair kit to fix it, or buy a new hose entirely.
    Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • The pumping mechanism is broken and the couple can’t find anyone to fix it.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Ships can't arrive to fix it until the sea ice melts, likely in early August.
    Mark Thiessen, ajc, 29 June 2023
  • Here's why your phone might be showing an SOS icon where the cell phone service usually displays and how to fix it.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Fifty customers pointed out the problem but the investing giant still was slow to fix it.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 2 June 2023
  • This new multiverse boo-boo is a potential reason to watch the Flash zoom through the timestream in another movie to try to fix it.
    David Betancourt, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • If a lineman is above his target body-fat percentage, Saban wants to know what the staff is doing to fix it.
    Brian O'Keefe, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This area deserves new owners and operators to come in, fix it, spruce it up and bring in new tenants.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • If something isn’t right, you’ll be guided through the steps needed to fix it or investigate it.
    David Nield / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • That means having the cash to fix it, in contrast to a conventional loan, with which some issues can be ignored.
    Megan Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The new findings should help researchers understand precisely where the problem is and perhaps fix it, Iliff says.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 26 June 2024

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