retrofit
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The most disruptive part of the retrofit work was carried out first, and included the insulation of shared walls, flooring and the roof.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The newest jet in the fleet—one donated by the Qatari government—underwent a rapid $400 million retrofit to fly by July 4, America’s 250th birthday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
And it would have proven more costly to retrofit than the Rose Bowl pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We build new projectors every day, but film projectors, using this film, it’s not practical. So we’ve got to find them and retrofit them and rebuild them, which is what we did for ‘Odyssey.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Center has since benefitted by a forty-million-dollar retrofit, but there's still enough forest and swamp on the facility for the Border Patrol to put in tracking practice.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
American Airlines expects screens to be installed across its full fleet by early in the next decade, with retrofits starting in 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
On Net Zero he proposes a "Northern Way", which subsidises the transition, retrofits, cutting bills, and building exportable locally owned industry.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
There are industry divides over which bill allows more flexibility to comply with new mandates and whether airlines should be required to make potentially costly retrofits of cockpit systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In my mind, I feel a reimagining of access is required — not as a set of retrofits or accommodations, but as a creative opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
In South Pasadena, with a population of 26,000, building official Dennis Tarango said the city has no plans to create an inventory of soft-story apartment buildings or consider mandatory retrofits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Two perfectly-tuned sets, retrofitted for this decadent monolith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Once that multi-gigawatt power infrastructure has been retrofitted to AI or HPC colocation, there is no turning back," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
For excursions on land, Green Safaris’s lodges have retrofitted Land Rovers to run on batteries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Strong men lifted Garfield and the mattress from the wagon onto the rail car, which had been retrofitted to accommodate him.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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That’s the main reason Norwegian boat-tour company Brim Explorer is retrofitting its whale-watching fleet to run exclusively on battery power by 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The US has spent months retrofitting the $400m Boeing 747-8 to prepare it for the president.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jones noted that the state offers grants through the Earthquake Brace+Bolt program to partially cover the cost of retrofitting older single-family homes that can slide off their foundation in an earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
At those levels, buyers can commission their own dream homes instead of retrofitting someone else’s fantasy.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
In April the government approved a legal framework to allow people to convert their petrol and diesel vehicles into electric ones, known as "retrofitting".
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
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