redo
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Swaths of stubborn flies bother his mechanics as they work, and he’s had to redo paint jobs and clear coats tainted by the thick dust from the warehouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The upshot: The redo to the Fed’s favorite price gauge, the so-called core PCE index, is likely to show inflation rising a little more slowly this year than previously reported.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
With July 4 approaching, the administration is rushing to redo a project in which Trump has taken a strong personal interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
What you end up having to do is actually go through it again and redo all of it from scratch.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
A moment later, though, she came over behind Naomi, undid her braid, and began to redo it.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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
That’s why pretty much all of these live-action redos feel cold at their core.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
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
Poppy, the waitress and single mother in Alexa Martin’s Fumbled, redoes her own kitchen with the help of Pinterest and free classes at the local Home Depot:
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2020
She scraps the work she did under his prying eye, and redoes it her way when he’s not around.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
It takes me four tries to get the tie on, and Dad still redoes it when he sees me.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
So he redid it himself, grinding up to 10 hours a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Outside, Brettler redid the pool, which was falling apart, and added a bathroom, a bar and concrete pavers that will move with earthquakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
"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
Owen grimaced as George pulled him out of the hole and redid his bandage.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
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
Factoring in the year the manor has been unattended and adding in the cost of projects that may now need to be redone, $15 million may now be more realistic, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Nearby, families squared off on newly redone tennis courts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
We’ve redone the security cams, rewired the stadium, and security detail has been doubled.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
"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
How about redoing the building code to make it possible to construct small apartment buildings like single-family homes—that is, quickly and cheaply?
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2025
She spent a whole day redoing the drawing on different sheets of paper, coloring it in, trimming it to size, taking it to the university copy center.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
