as in modification
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as in to redesign
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as in to reequip
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Recent Examples of refit
Brian Haines, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
For the first time, the vessel that Nicholson had envisioned came slowly back to life, through an extensive six-year refit at multiple yards, Beconcini in Italy, Lurssen in Germany, and Astilleros de Mallorca.
—Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Longer term, the Ukrainians could refit their F-16s with non-American electronic countermeasures.
—David Axe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Noun
When a refit becomes unavoidable, this information can inform adaptable design and optimize layouts and furniture choices before construction begins.
—Brian Haines, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
For the first time, the vessel that Nicholson had envisioned came slowly back to life, through an extensive six-year refit at multiple yards, Beconcini in Italy, Lurssen in Germany, and Astilleros de Mallorca.
—Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake severely damaged the Bay Bridge, leading to a decision to replace its eastern section rather than merely repair or refit it.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Longer term, the Ukrainians could refit their F-16s with non-American electronic countermeasures.
—David Axe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refit
Noun
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Being open about body modification makes total sense to me in this day and age… (But) beauty imperatives aren’t victimless.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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People have claimed these are used for a range of things from weather modification to mind control.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
Verb
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Ramsay redesigned the menu to include local food and upgraded the restaurant’s interior, adding art deco-style touches, new seating, contemporary marbled countertops, wall art and a tufted sofa in the private niche.—
Bryna Zumer,
Baltimore Sun,
13 June 2025
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So the company took a new approach to how its spaces would embody that mission and redesigned a new flagship, the Rivian Space in NYC. Passport: Explore the finest destinations and experiences around the world in the Forbes Passport newsletter.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
Verb
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The 110th Brigade is helping to buy time for other brigades to reequip with heavier weaponry.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2023
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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
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When the audit known as feminist revision became a feature of feminist theory, it was never intended to eclipse in importance the activity known as praxis: organizing, taking over institutions, seizing power to make lasting changes in policy and law.—
Dayna Tortorici,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Athletes whose deals are rejected will have the chance to revise those deals and submit revisions for review.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
8 June 2025
Verb
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It was remodeled by its subsequent owners—the brothers who owned the F. W. Woolworth Company—in the style of Versailles, an over-the-top gesture that from a twenty-first-century vantage point looks quintessentially nouveau riche, and quintessentially New Jersey.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 June 2025
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The home design cable network bought the house to remodel and give to a lucky viewer.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
Verb
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By the end of the movie, the roommates moved back into their old apartment, which had been refurnished and renovated by a new landlord.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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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
Noun
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Coca-Cola used the campaign to create new momentum around digital transformation.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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To a certain extent, The Darjeeling Limited is an unseemly act of spiritual tourism, no better than Eat Pray Love or countless other films about privileged white Americans turning a foreign landscape into the site of their holistic transformation.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
7 June 2025
Verb
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The early alert gave the company time to intervene, rework the agent’s schedule, and keep a key team member.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Could the defense be reworked if an upgrade comes along?—
Cory Lavalette,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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“Refit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refit. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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