refit
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Another strength of the Chinese is that they are able to retool and refit their refineries much quicker to treat different grades of crude.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
China's central government allocated funds to refit stoves, but subsidies faded after three years and additional aid has drastically declined, local media reported this week.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Liverpool have been vulnerable in defence ever since head coach Arne Slot and the club's recruitment team embarked on a £450m summer refit that has yet to prove anything like value for money.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
He even hired an architect named Peter de Vries to help design plans for the refit of the new barge so that it could sail to the Saya de Malha Bank and survive there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, meanwhile, cost $260 million merely to refit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
I have been much more sympathetic than more modern refits.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
Similar refits in other buildings will be crucial in a transition to circular construction, says Jeffries.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022
Cardone thanked workers for participating at Tridonex, which refits second-hand car parts for sale in the United States and Canada, and said it would work with the winning union once officials certify the vote.
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022
The loophole that Pruitt was seeking would have eased pending restrictions on so-called glider trucks - a booming sector of truck-making that refits older, dirtier truck engines with new truck bodies.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
These "refits" were needed not only by the ships but also by the men who worked them.
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)
Many of these nuclear plants are old and will need to be refitted with new technology for them to function safely.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
The tanks are being refitted to meet Ukraine’s needs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
But on the fourth anniversary of the conflagration, the prospect of a Notre-Dame refitted by the end of next year no longer seems so absurd.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
Yes, some of these “covers” are a little too unexpected: When Diamond’s intensely interior musings are turned into duets and awkwardly refitted as plot numbers, it’s hard not to roll your ears.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
By the time they let me visit my father again, the Coral Queen had been pumped dry, mopped clean, and refitted with new gambling equipment.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
The European Parliament’s decision to send its just-signed trade agreement with South America for legal review served as a sharp reminder this week of just how challenging refitting the EU will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
I even go to him sometimes when I need help with hand placement and refitting, because he’s a technician at it.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The 250-foot-long vessel, the Petrel, was bought by the Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen in 2016 and underwent extensive refitting to take part in expeditions to explore shipwrecks around the globe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Transit leaders said they will develop a plan for the nearly unprecedented step of refitting 5,984 wheels onto 2,992 axles of all 748 rail cars in the series.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
This addition of tonnage and weaponry was not, however, the main outcome of this second refitting.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
