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redo

[ree-doo, ree-doo] / riˈdu, ˈriˌdu /


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The green bollards seen on Bellflower Boulevard and Studebaker before the redo often get hit by cars and can resemble thick blades of stomped grass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"It didn't go how we planned but we will have to find time to redo it," Jacks smiled.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Go-arounds are routine maneuvers pilots perform to redo landing attempts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

After sending it in, McGregor asked him to redo the tape, offering a few notes, including that he needed to physically be more still.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Let me redo those braids, since we have a bit of time.”

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

This recycled trash is no treasure, but I’m betting the majority of this redo’s audience will be young enough to find ’90s-style schlock adorably quaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Additionally, a backlog of companies waiting to IPO, which leads to debt stack redos, has been building and M&A is growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

The Labyrinth Canyon-Gemini Bridges travel management plan is the highest profile of these redos so far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

If you just practice your swoops a little bit, and you get infinite numbers of redos when you're swooping, you can just keep swooping to your heart's content.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021

Only endless remakes, redos, fusions, whatever crap they call them now.

From Nature ● Jun. 27, 2017

Almost 10 percent of the operations were redos - replacing worn-out artificial joints.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2012

He said construction of the warehouse project must stop while the county redoes the report in a manner that complies with the law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024

He meticulously redoes the foul lines with a string and wheelbarrow of paint, which Wilson prefers over chalk.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

Anything I do manage to finish, she redoes with a sigh.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2020

Overnight, inspired by Micheline, Clarence redoes his entire collection and sends his houseful of female cutters, seamstresses, administrators, and secretaries into a frenzy of activity.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2018

It takes me four tries to get the tie on, and Dad still redoes it when he sees me.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

I just redid my personal website from scratch in 20 minutes without writing a single line of code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

"We redid our analysis at multiple spatial and taxonomic scales," Baldwin said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

In the 1920s, they redid the waterfront, opened it up, got rid of some of the piers.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

She redid the floors in the kitchen herself and paid for her own gardener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

Owen grimaced as George pulled him out of the hole and redid his bandage.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Even projects that were close to being completed had to be redone to comply retroactively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

They picked up the waterfront property as one of their “getaway destinations” and had it redone in the “classic tradition of the Adirondacks.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

All HGV drivers must complete a D4 before getting their licence for the first time, while drivers over 45 must have them redone periodically to prove they are still safe to operate the vehicles.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

But, Goldberger goes on, “neither Trump’s arch nor his redone reflecting pool nor his gaggle of statues is a meaningful new layer of history.”

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

The floors have been redone, the walls freshly painted, the ceiling dotted with track lights.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"I write the scripts, I plan the scenes, and keep redoing things because the AI generation messes up constantly," they wrote.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

If we get it for $1.3 million, we could put another $300,000 into gutting and insulating it, redoing the electrics and upgrading the windows and doors, and do the rest over time.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

Lay’s is redoing the bags too, ditching the crinkly sheen for a heavier, matte finish emblazoned with pictures of potatoes and chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

So we're good at taking things that weren't meant for certain things and redoing them into things that work for us.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

Miss Saunders takes out a mirror and starts redoing her lipstick.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake




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