fix up

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Recent Examples of fix up There’s still much to be done to fix up the space, Andrews said. Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2025 Multiple factors are pushing the costs for building or fixing up home, according to the trade group. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025 That involved the sellers putting up $80,000 in escrow for roof repairs and fixing up the property. Matthew Geiger, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025 In an interview with CT Mirror and ProPublica, Stefanski said fixing up cars is his hobby. Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fix up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fix up
Verb
  • Lucas County officials have announced plans to form a task force to examine and rebuild trust in local child welfare systems.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Seeking to rebuild investor confidence and boost near-term shareholder returns, BP in February pledged to slash renewable spending and ramp up annual expenditure on its core business of oil and gas.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Economists are puzzled to see Trump trying to overhaul the existing economic order and doing it so soon after inheriting the strongest economy in the world.
    Time, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • After 18 seniors graduated in 2023, the Blue Devils had to overhaul their varsity roster and called upon McCarthy to pitch regularly.
    Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Nasser had been largely repaired, but reminders of the violence were everywhere.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • And when repairing cars gets more expensive, so does something else: auto insurance.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Season 5 to explore new relationship, show creator says While some may still be rooting for Emily to patch things up with Gabriel, the focus of this upcoming season will be Emily's relationship with Marcello, Star told Tudum.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The derelict Brooklyn Queens Expressway, which has been deemed too brittle to patch, too cumbersome to bury, and too crucial to dismantle, keeps getting handed off to the next administration.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Criterion sought for years to reconstruct the films and eventually released their 4K restorations in 2015.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The house where the Jewish teenager penned her famous diary has been reconstructed for visitors to experience the five rooms the Frank family and others lived in before they were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The investigation was aided by a confidential informant — one of Gonzalez’s former friends who got busted, according to court records.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • To help aid this process, Chelsea Women are now operating independently from the men’s team and appointed Aki Mandhar, formerly of The Athletic, as their first-ever dedicated CEO.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And of course, let your nails properly cure under the UV light—try not to move around too much or knock things over.
    Martine Thompson, Essence, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Like doctors stopping a patient’s heart to cure atrial fibrillations, a brief, brutal trade war could have Americans paying less and owning more.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • For example, whenever one of the kids had a spelling bee, everyone in the car would help recite the words.
    Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Please help show my baby that other badass women are out there!
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Fix up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fix%20up. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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