retools

Definition of retoolsnext
present tense third-person singular of retool
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Verb
  • Wastewater is also reused for irrigation, and the hotel has also started recycling vegetable oils with an organization that transforms the waste into biodiesel.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • Technology, desire and collapse Across the Giardini, Maja Malou Lyse’s DIS, Things to Come (2026) transforms the Danish Pavilion into an immersive environment where digital imagery and physical presence collapse into one another.
    Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • To address the challenge, the team designed a swap gate based purely on geometric phases, that exchanges the quantum state of two qubits.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Dorian Gray, the Victorian era’s proto-Clavicular, literally exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty—a move that the looksmaxxing community would seem to endorse wholeheartedly.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Nayabu, 43, commutes about four hours each day to and from his tech job in Santa Clara from Mountain House.
    Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Kerigan Rosado, 29, commutes an hour each way to her job as an administrative office assistant at Central Michigan University.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This pattern, observed in modern birds, rarely appears in reptiles and other dinosaurs; this discovery revolutionizes our understanding of dinosaur parental care and suggests more complex social systems.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
  • However, one of the most striking innovations is the Fire Queso Sauce Packet, an idea that revolutionizes the concept of sauce packets by offering edible packaging with a crunchy texture that contains cheese.
    Imelda García, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • But the filmmaker’s imagination transfigures personal history into something not of this world, wholly original, and uniquely demented.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Henrot transfigures her erotic source material into something else.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Retools.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retools. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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