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recondition

[ree-kuhn-dish-uhn] / ˌri kənˈdɪʃ ən /




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However, it warned of higher costs to recondition vehicles.

From MarketWatch Feb. 18, 2026

Some will be purchased by dealers who will recondition them and sell them as used cars.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 20, 2023

The point is to stay consistent and remember that you are using this time to recondition the muscles, tendons, ligaments and connective tissues in your legs, Dr. Wu said.

From New York Times May 13, 2022

So you can take an older battery and recondition it, and it’ll be much better for many years.

From The Verge Jan. 24, 2022

He’d been so horrified by the condition of what he called “the boss’s lawn” that he’d come by to recondition it.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

Family-owned Seattle Barrel, collects, reconditions and sells 55-gallon industrial drums.

From Seattle Times Dec. 18, 2019

The hope is that “when you engage in the game pretty intensely for long periods of time, it actually reconditions how the brain processes information.”

From Scientific American Nov. 2, 2015

It was reconditioned after last season and recertified for use in 2011 by Stadium System, a company based in Canaan, Conn., that reconditions helmets for hundreds of schools around the country.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2011

He recently opened a motorcycle shop that reconditions and sells vintage Harley-Davidsons.

From Time Magazine Archive

He reconditions used cars in a 40,000-sq,-ft, $500,000 plant that he grandly calls "the Courtesy Conditioning Assembly Line."

From Time Magazine Archive

Much of that equipment is being taken out of the plant to be rebuilt and reconditioned.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

The organs were put on ice and transported to Cambridge, where they were placed in the machine to be "reconditioned" before transplant.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2024

The "My Heart Your Heart" program began sending reconditioned pacemakers abroad in 2010 for cases of compassionate use, in which there is no alternative to treat a life threatening cardiac condition.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

City officials said they’d previously fined the shop for its e-bike charging practices, though inspectors reportedly did not check to see if the store was selling reconditioned batteries on a recent visit.

From Seattle Times Jun. 23, 2023

Last week I sent a tuner over to my parents’ apartment and had the piano reconditioned, for purely sentimental reasons.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Higher vehicle reconditioning costs along with a drop in shipping revenue hit retail gross profit per unit.

From Barron's Apr. 29, 2026

Gross profit per unit is expected to normalize over coming quarters, and the reconditioning costs per unit would have been $220 lower if all the company’s locations were as efficient as the top 25%.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

After a planned overnight stay, the astronauts will travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will begin standard postflight evaluations and physical reconditioning.

From Science Daily Jan. 16, 2026

He joined the Ford dealership and was in charge of appraising and reconditioning used cars there.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2024

The only option was to ship all the magnets back to the manufacturer, Allis-Chalmers, for cleaning and radical reconditioning.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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