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renovate

[ren-uh-veyt] / ˈrɛn əˌveɪt /


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If Rob Pelinka could use the Dodgers’ blueprint to renovate, Lakers fans wouldn’t even be sweating this summer.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2026

There are also subsidies to buy a bigger car or renovate your home.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

Giovanni tries desperately to renovate the room to make it a home for them, but David cruelly rejects his offering of a future together.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Related: My husband used my money to renovate his house.

From MarketWatch Jun. 6, 2026

The City of New York takes so much time to either renovate or bulldoze a condemned building it’s like those guys on Death Row who die of old age rather than execution.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Prices may go up as supply contracts, insurance payments flood in, and investment renovates buildings to code; prices may go down as rising premiums and maintenance fees get tacked on.

From Slate Oct. 9, 2024

Back in Baltimore, David Lidz runs Waterbottle Cooperative, a grassroots organisation that buys up decaying properties in Baltimore and renovates them to rent to people on low incomes.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2024

Beyond the Carter Center, the couple became the most famous volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, the international outfit that builds, repairs and renovates homes for low-income people.

From Seattle Times Jul. 6, 2023

Through this initiative, Ivorian artistic director Lemon Otto renovates external facades of older building such as Pyramid, which was completed in 1973 under the direction of the Italian architect Rinaldo Olivieri.

From Reuters Apr. 24, 2023

When he takes a Hindoo head into his charge, he does not confine himself to the chin or scalp, but renovates it all over. 

From Behind the Bungalow by Aitken, Edward Hamilton

Between 2016 and 2025, 539 were built, with a further 586 being renovated, external.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

A former US Olympian accused of vandalizing Washington's newly renovated Reflecting Pool was charged on Thursday with a felony and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, a federal prosecutor said.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

The $14.7-million repainting of the Reflecting Pool became particularly controversial last month after algae overtook the renovated pool and the new paint appeared to peel off.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

On June 5, workers began refilling the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

The windows facing the street were covered with plywood and only the first floor was renovated so it looked as if the fire that emptied the building hadn’t affected that floor.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Keaton, who died from primary bacterial pneumonia at the age of 79, spent years meticulously renovating the Sullivan Canyon abode.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Others have been listed for sale or have cut back on labor, renovating and adding machinery to soap and scrub as well as self-serve vacuum stations.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

Plenty of ideas are already in the air about how to spend the windfall: new pavements, renovating the school or offering home-help services.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

"We're renovating the country as we go, and Alberta being at the centre of that is essential," Carney said as he toured work being done on Canada's parliament building.

From BBC May 22, 2026

He and his wife had split up around the time Eric and I did, but he had consoled himself by buying and renovating a wreck of a town house in Brooklyn.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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