as in to rebuild
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Recent Examples of fix up
Then the new owners will fix up the building and lease it out.
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Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2025
Not all of Howard County's excess surplus funding, which was made known to the Board of Education, will be used to fix up the schools, Executive Calvin Ball clarified in a letter.
—Dennis Valera, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The company has taken measures to fix up its balance sheet.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Dayna is unemployed and newly single, and an out-of-the-blue opportunity to fix up a dilapidated mansion into an influencer house seems like her ticket to a new life.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2025
Not all of Howard County's excess surplus funding, which was made known to the Board of Education, will be used to fix up the schools, Executive Calvin Ball clarified in a letter.
—Dennis Valera, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The company has taken measures to fix up its balance sheet.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Dayna is unemployed and newly single, and an out-of-the-blue opportunity to fix up a dilapidated mansion into an influencer house seems like her ticket to a new life.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fix up
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Per the new show’s official logline, in this new era of Peaky Blinders, a decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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The car was destroyed during a test crash in 1974, but in 2017, the marque’s factory restoration team, Lamborghini Polo Storioco, decided to rebuild it.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
2 Apr. 2026
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The Ada County Highway District is a gubernatorial signature away from unwillingly adopting a countywide, partisan vote after the Legislature passed an 11th-hour bill to overhaul how the district’s board is elected.—
Mark Dee
April 4,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Georgia General Assembly ended its annual session early Friday without a plan for new equipment to overhaul the state's voting system by a July deadline, plunging into doubt the future of elections in the political battleground.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Then came the unexpected season-long absence of captain Aleksander Barkov, who needed surgery to repair the ACL and MCL in his right knee after an injury less than an hour into his first practice of training camp.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Nathan Swain repairs a ford just west of the settlement that was washed away during a recent rainstorm.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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That means that alert attackers had a two-day headstart to exploit before most OpenClaw users would have known to patch.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2026
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Ensuring your Wi-Fi router receives software updates is crucial to patching vulnerabilities, especially since the router ban is all about stopping hackers from abusing flaws in today’s home networking gear.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
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All four are gone, leaving Mirabal to reconstruct a unit that added only one Power 4 transfer, Jamal Meriweather, who logged just 59 offensive snaps in three years at Georgia.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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Those ball-tracking cameras capture up to 300 frames per second, allowing the system to precisely locate each pitch within the strike zone and reconstruct its path.—
Neil Nakahodo,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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Police say the cameras have aided in investigations, including a crash at Peachtree Blvd.—
Leondra Head,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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His efforts were greatly aided, Kirkpatrick reports, by the fact that so many of them feared for their lives—after several of their fellow-scientists had been assassinated in Israeli operations.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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This could allow for greater design flexibility, as lower curing deformation results in fewer distortions during production.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
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Allow the rhizomes to cure for a couple of days, then store them in peat moss in a cool (40-50°F), dark place such as an unheated cellar, garage or crawlspace.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Apr. 2026
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To help keep a lid on prices at the pump, the Environmental Protection Agency recently waived the summertime cap on the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline.—
E.J. Antoni,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Kansas City Star has created a voter guide to help readers understand who everyone is on the KC-area ballot.—
Rashad Alexander,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Fix up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fix%20up. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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