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Recent Examples of refit
Noun
The famously private yacht was bought by a new owner in 2022 and emerged back in public view a year later following a rapid 300-day refit. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2024 The growth of the yachting industry in Dubai owes much to the expansion of state-of-the-art marinas and second-to-none yacht crew and refit facilities. Dubai Tourism Contributor, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
Palmer spent two years, or about 1,000 hours, refitting the jet into a theme hotel, adding lighting, plumbing, modern televisions, and a kitchen with fridge. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025 If there’s a cease-fire, then, in Putin’s mind, the cease-fire is likely to give him time to rest, to refit, to reattack at some point in the future. Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for refit 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refit
Noun
  • Prime editing offers more accurate and flexible DNA modifications compared to traditional CRISPR-Cas9 systems, allowing for insertions, deletions, and base substitutions without inducing double-strand breaks.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • If the land use modification fails, the Association would have to wait for a calendar year before trying again.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • It's been redesigned to speak more naturally, and it's been given the ability to understand context within conversations.
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
  • For 2025, the VW Tiguan, which has been the company’s top selling model since it was redesigned in 2018 to align with the Atlas, serves as a pinnacle of all those ideas and then, takes them a step further with true luxury features and an even more elevated, refined style inside and out.
    Scotty Reiss, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The 110th Brigade is helping to buy time for other brigades to reequip with heavier weaponry.
    David Axe, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In the meantime, the first Ukrainian brigade fully to reequip with Western tanks probably will ride in Leopard 1A5s from the mid-1980s.
    David Axe, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • An internal email obtained by Spotlight on Maryland revealed one school system official responded to concerns from board member Terri Kocher with claims that a revision to the Patriot Program was necessary to boost equity and address concerns from the local teacher union.
    Patrick Hauf, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Mayor Bill Wells was the only member to object to any revisions.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The Keeler House: In 1990 modernist architect Ray Kappe remodeled a home for jazz singer Anne Keeler and her then-husband, Gordon Melcher.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Fire department funding will be used to rebuild and remodel existing fire stations, and to build a center for fire, police, and specialty apparatus.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Plans to refurnish the building began as far back as the 1990s but were repeatedly held up by funding issues.
    Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Federal law dictates that only $5,000 can be spent on refurnishing a Cabinet secretary's offices.
    Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Some key gender-swap choice aside, Blichfeldt hews closely to the shape of the original Grimm Brothers story in ways that, however inevitable, can’t escape predictability as Elvira undergoes transformations for the big ball.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Disneyland’s Napa Rose celebrates 20 years of bringing wine center stage The Napa Rose transformation will extend to the menu while maintaining the 1,500-label wine collection.
    Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • After Musk weighed in against a spending deal late last year, spurring Republicans to rework their bill, Democrats warned that an unelected billionaire was essentially acting like the president.
    Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • But other companies also use Red 3 to color a wide variety of products, from drinks to vegetarian meats, and will be forced to rework their recipes.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2025

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