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
Fuentes adds that New Mexico has considered the various barriers that families may face in accessing child care and have a plan in place to provide funding through loans to build and renovate facilities, and most critically, to raise wages for workers.
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Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 22 Sep. 2025
The Westworth location in Ridgmar is newly renovated.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
Owners and brothers Pietro, Giuliano, and Alessandro Irollo de Lutiis, reportedly invested 30 million euros and spent four years renovating it.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
The city is also renovating the Marchetti Park on Delta Fair Boulevard and Jacobsen Park at Jacobsen Street.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
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Both as a technician responsible for inspecting, servicing and repairing motor transport equipment like tactical vehicles and as a vehicle recovery operator, responsible for bringing back armored vehicles in support of troop missions.—
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If Nabers has surgery to repair his ACL, that 10-month window would put him back on the field either next July or August, just in time for training camp.—
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Magdalene Serenity House received inquiries from 190 women seeking a safe place to heal, recover and rebuild in 2024 with 117 meeting the group's eligibility requirements, organizers say.—
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Harry was eager to show them both that the family bond is still there and that it could be rebuilt, particularly for the children’s sake.—
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Advanced decoding systems then reconstruct the original data, allowing information sent from distances comparable to Mars to be received with remarkable accuracy.—
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Marking 30 years since the killing of San Sebastián deputy mayor and People’s Party councillor Gregorio Ordóñez, the doc reconstructs the events of January 1995 and the subsequent mobilization against ETA.—
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The tri-mode seeker shares targeting information among all three modes, enabling StormBreaker to engage fixed or moving targets at any time of day and in all weather conditions, according to Raytheon.—
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Oracle's economics are largely fixed and contracted, with the upside accruing to OpenAI.—
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“Renovate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renovate. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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