refit
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Another strength of the Chinese is that they are able to retool and refit their refineries much quicker to treat different grades of crude.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Liverpool have been vulnerable in defence ever since head coach Arne Slot and the club's recruitment team embarked on a £450m summer refit that has yet to prove anything like value for money.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
"We weren't even told there was a refit happening."
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
He even hired an architect named Peter de Vries to help design plans for the refit of the new barge so that it could sail to the Saya de Malha Bank and survive there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, meanwhile, cost $260 million merely to refit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Similar refits in other buildings will be crucial in a transition to circular construction, says Jeffries.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022
Cardone thanked workers for participating at Tridonex, which refits second-hand car parts for sale in the United States and Canada, and said it would work with the winning union once officials certify the vote.
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022
Air Force officials unveiled plans Feb. 10 to begin discontinuing several older platforms, including retiring some A-10s even as it refits others with new wings.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Rather, it refits their mental engines, calibrating them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or otherwise produce something society deems valuable.”
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2019
Strange is the seaman’s heart; he hopes, he fears; Draws closer and sweeps wider from that coast; Last, his rent sail refits, and to the deep His shattered prow uncomforted puts back.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Beginning with tobacco, they refitted the dusty doctrine as a battering ram and swung it at guns, lead paint, opioids and oil companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But on the fourth anniversary of the conflagration, the prospect of a Notre-Dame refitted by the end of next year no longer seems so absurd.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
It was worn by Elizabeth during her coronation and has been refitted for her son.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2023
In his sales pitch, Versluys also emphasises that refitted Leopard 1 tanks could be battlefield-ready in months - much more quickly than new models ordered today, which will take years to produce.
From Reuters ● Feb. 1, 2023
Then of his touching Aiolos’s isle and how that king refitted him for sailing to Ithaka; all vain: gales blew him back groaning over the fishcold sea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
The European Parliament’s decision to send its just-signed trade agreement with South America for legal review served as a sharp reminder this week of just how challenging refitting the EU will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Such a refitting process, says aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia, managing director of AeroDynamic Advisory, would take years, until 2030 at least.
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
The 250-foot-long vessel, the Petrel, was bought by the Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen in 2016 and underwent extensive refitting to take part in expeditions to explore shipwrecks around the globe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Transit leaders said they will develop a plan for the nearly unprecedented step of refitting 5,984 wheels onto 2,992 axles of all 748 rail cars in the series.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
McNeish began refitting the twenty-two-foot-long Caird for the journey, decking it over with packing crate lids and canvas, and raising the sides.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
