as in to repair
to put into good shape or working order again
will have to renovate the house extensively before we can move in
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Recent Examples of renovate
Stratford is in Newham, an East London borough where poverty is relatively high, and which was renovated for the London 2012 Olymics.
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Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 13 Sep. 2025
While this 1950s Garrison Colonial-style home has had only three owners over the years, the second ones renovated the kitchen into a long galley space.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
The 8,535-square-foot home touts five bedrooms and five baths and was completely renovated this year.
—Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Just next door is Italian venue Ciro’s, renovated only last year.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
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Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 13 Sep. 2025
While this 1950s Garrison Colonial-style home has had only three owners over the years, the second ones renovated the kitchen into a long galley space.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
The 8,535-square-foot home touts five bedrooms and five baths and was completely renovated this year.
—Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Just next door is Italian venue Ciro’s, renovated only last year.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for renovate
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Research by John Gottman and colleagues shows that the most stable couples are those who can repair quickly after a rupture, within three minutes of a conflict, to be precise, so as to pre-emptively stop the conflict from rupturing into an uncontrollable one.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Inspired by oysters, the new glue is designed to repair broken bones quickly without the need for metal plates, screws, or big surgeries.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Reeve was able to rebuild a championship-level contender around Collier, an MVP contender this season, and a group of veteran players who aren’t likely to someday have busts next to Maya Moore, Sylvia Fowles, Seimone Augustus and Lindsay Whalen.—
Matthew Coller,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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The stress of finding housing, steady work, and a supportive environment can be overwhelming, especially when paired with the burden of rebuilding trust.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Developers should be able to reconstruct task graphs showing the sequence of agent decisions, branching logic and results.—
Gopikrishnan Anilkumar,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Then, in 2011, Apple reconstructed the cube in the same location, same size, but with only 15 panels, minimizing the number of seams and hardware while maximizing transparency.—
Aki Ishida,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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Build systems and products that directly address and fix those harms.—
Brandon Aversano,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Yet none of this new global reality means that things are now fixed.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Renovate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renovate. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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