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makeover

[meyk-oh-ver] / ˈmeɪkˌoʊ vər /
NOUN
refashioning
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US President Donald Trump has continued his makeover of the White House, adding a statue of Christopher Colombus and laying new black granite paving stones on the famed West Wing colonnade.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Singapore is managed in a way that "excludes accident and randomness", he wrote in Singapore Songlines, his seminal essay on the city's rapid makeover.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Recently, I gave the loft a Midcentury, Zen makeover.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

The center will serve as the “intellectual backbone” of the La Brea Tar Pits’ long-planned makeover, said NHM President and Director Lori Bettison-Varga.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

My favorite shows were the makeover ones, where the designer would fix up a room and do a big reveal at the end.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks