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renovate

[ren-uh-vayt] / ˈrɛn əˌveɪt /


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However, with National Lottery funding in 2014, the company was able to renovate a warehouse into its current studio.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Share prices of companies that build, renovate and outfit homes aren’t pricing in a depression, but they do reflect serious pessimism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

They had the most sympathy with student complaints about the excessive size of classes and with the need to renovate the country's crumbling schools.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

He is said to have spent an astonishing $100 million to renovate it for a planned Beechwood Art Museum.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

“You think I should renovate the Boston house?” he asked.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

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

Since 2022 Trixie's also had her own show on Discovery+, Trixie Motel, which follows the drag queen as she renovates a motel in California.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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

What however must be ever present is the Will by which man every moment of his life renovates his own personality.

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

“As soon as I renovated it, I would sell it and move into another disastrous property. I couldn’t stop myself, and it’s always been like that,” she says with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The plants were decanted to temporary homes, and then carefully moved back into the renovated space.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

A vast, newly renovated hangar houses planes undergoing inspection, including one with its twin turboprop engines exposed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

She picked up one abode in 2017 for just under $10 million but sold that off just three years later, having renovated the home extensively before deciding to put it back on the market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Bodega pressed a button and the tinted window slid robotically down to frame the five newly renovated tenements.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Should I sell my house because of dangerous stairs — or spend thousands renovating?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

The prime minister has sought to address the issue of missing teachers and renovating buildings that are dilapidated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The company has spent more than three years renovating the spaces surrounding the original Prada store, opened there by Miuccia Prada’s grandfather Mario in 1913.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The UK government plans to create greater protections for people renovating their homes against 'cowboy builders', through a new database of trusted traders and a payment system offering more safeguards.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

We are also renovating their schoolhouse and setting up a little clinic.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall


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