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renovate

[ren-uh-veyt] / ˈrɛn əˌveɪt /


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In 2010, they reportedly spent $28 million to extensively renovate the estate, which boasts 310 feet of private shoreline and a private boathouse.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

He asked them where they procured the redwood to renovate their shingle roof and the trio spent the rest of the morning excitedly discussing restoration techniques and comparing notes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Julia also shares items with friends – she has borrowed tools to renovate her home and given people plant cuttings from her garden.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Its Cleveland Street Alliance with parishioners and real-estate developers is working to renovate downtown properties, including plans for a $50 million, 83,900-square-foot entertainment center.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 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

It renovates every thing by its vital heat, it illumines every thing by its flashing beams; it can neither be confined nor intermingled; it divides and yet is immutable.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

The property has been extensively renovated over the past 20 years by its previous owners.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

The area around the home was cordoned off for six days, according to The Sun, external, with one resident telling the newspaper the property was being renovated.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The city and team may not agree on who should pay for them, and real estate development around the stadium could be part of the solution for funding a new or renovated stadium.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

According to a law enforcement source, Kardashian and her children are living elsewhere while the property is being renovated, but her cars were still at the property.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

They renovated it three years ago and practically quadrupled its size, putting in basketball courts, a saltwater pool, shiny new cardio equipment, and rows and rows of free weights.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

Roberts moved into her four-bedroom house in 2011 and spent two years renovating the property with her husband.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

And they proposed plans for revitalizing the corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway downtown, including renovating two existing buildings and developing three new ones for apartments, commercial and office space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Ross Simmons found the water-damaged copy of “The Antiquities of Athens” while renovating a house in the seaside town of Kiama, south of Sydney.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

The project’s funding is restricted to renovating the campus and does not include the conservation of the Watts Towers themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Sapo believed in Bodega because he knew other reasons why Bodega was renovating the neighborhood.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez




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