recondition
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However, it warned of higher costs to recondition vehicles.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
Some will be purchased by dealers who will recondition them and sell them as used cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
So you can take an older battery and recondition it, and it’ll be much better for many years.
From The Verge ● Jan. 24, 2022
Three of the booths were removed because of the cost to recondition them, and Alexander replaced them with tables.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2016
He’d been so horrified by the condition of what he called “the boss’s lawn” that he’d come by to recondition it.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
Family-owned Seattle Barrel, collects, reconditions and sells 55-gallon industrial drums.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
The hope is that “when you engage in the game pretty intensely for long periods of time, it actually reconditions how the brain processes information.”
From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2015
It was reconditioned after last season and recertified for use in 2011 by Stadium System, a company based in Canaan, Conn., that reconditions helmets for hundreds of schools around the country.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2011
He recently opened a motorcycle shop that reconditions and sells vintage Harley-Davidsons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its Cinefonics division makes documentary films both for Cook and other companies; the Air Mod division reconditions Air Force planes and repairs electronic gear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of that equipment is being taken out of the plant to be rebuilt and reconditioned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
It means donated lungs which are considered "borderline" for use can be reconditioned and used, instead of being discarded.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
These used and reconditioned devices have the potential to increase access to pacemaker therapy in low- and middle-income countries, where many patients cannot afford the treatment.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
City officials said they’d previously fined the shop for its e-bike charging practices, though inspectors reportedly did not check to see if the store was selling reconditioned batteries on a recent visit.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Last week I sent a tuner over to my parents’ apartment and had the piano reconditioned, for purely sentimental reasons.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Carvana underwrites its own loans, giving it an advantage to used car salesmen, reflected in its cars worth $500 to $1000 versus rivals after reconditioning, helped by its scale, Bellas said.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Though reconditioning costs came in higher than anticipated, Carvana said it expects to be able to bring them down over time through a large-scale production facility with simpler and more data-driven operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The Mirrlees Blackstone MB275 engines have yielded cylinder heads, fuel pumps and fuel injectors which have been sent off for reconditioning.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
He sat out for reconditioning and missed the first game of the Clippers’ back-to-back set after signing with them this week, the 28-year-old looking forward to playing backup point guard for his new team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
The only option was to ship all the magnets back to the manufacturer, Allis-Chalmers, for cleaning and radical reconditioning.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
