redo
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When asked by the Wall Street Journal Magazine in 2024 if there was a role he’d like to redo, his answer was “La La Land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
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
Translators "have to rewrite the whole thing, redo the translations, but they still only get paid the reduced rate," said Holly Parsons, a Spanish-to-English translator at the beginning of her career.
From Barron's ● May 27, 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
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
The rate was about the same in those getting redos.
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
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
If I don’t do it his way he redoes it.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
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
Dijksterhuis went back and redid his experiment, only this time he classified the cars in twelve different categories.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
"The one thing I found interesting is it's so obvious as to which holes had been redone," Scheffler said in his news conference.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
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
Soup to nuts: This phrase is a non-value-add in most cases as we can tell from the context of the statement something is being looked at or redone completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Miss Saunders has redone her classroom, like she does for every new book we take on.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
He’s proposed a 250-foot arch in front of Arlington National Cemetery, redoing the reflecting pool, and even adding his face to passports and coins.
From Slate ● May 7, 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
There's £4.75m in redoing the whole thing, those pieces would contribute a lot.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
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
