renovate
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Julia also shares items with friends – she has borrowed tools to renovate her home and given people plant cuttings from her garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
For years, MLK hospital’s leaders have wanted to renovate under-utilized interior spaces at its Willowbrook campus to expand the emergency department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
If Rob Pelinka could use the Dodgers’ blueprint to renovate, Lakers fans wouldn’t even be sweating this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
The president went on to say he planned to renovate a "dilapidated, worn out, and very dangerous" golf course in Washington called East Potomac Golf Links, located on an island in the Potomac River.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
“I need to see some design ideas for when I buy my own run-down house in Bushwick and renovate it,” she says in a dreamy, la-la-land voice.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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Prices may go up as supply contracts, insurance payments flood in, and investment renovates buildings to code; prices may go down as rising premiums and maintenance fees get tacked on.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
The company improves common areas, fixes plumbing, roof and other building deficiencies and renovates apartments when people move out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
Since 2022 Trixie's also had her own show on Discovery+, Trixie Motel, which follows the drag queen as she renovates a motel in California.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024
Beyond the Carter Center, the couple became the most famous volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, the international outfit that builds, repairs and renovates homes for low-income people.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
What however must be ever present is the Will by which man every moment of his life renovates his own personality.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
Stepping into the newly renovated Vilnius airport, visitors are greeted with a slew of billboards advertising products "Made in Lithuania", including cybersecurity giant NordVPN.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Prosecutors initially alleged he intentionally damaged the newly renovated surface, a felony offense carrying a potential prison sentence.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We probably would have had 20 buyers, easily, if the house was renovated, regardless of price,” Wines added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ms. Smith travels through Bosnia and Kosovo and sees how Mr. Erdoğan’s government has renovated mosques and opened Turkish-language schools there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Until later, Tab, Your Pacifist Working Boy III Mrs. Levy helped the renovated Miss Trixie up the steps and opened the door.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Samson Shi, general manager, expects sales to grow roughly 30% this year and is renovating a floor of his factory to accommodate more orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Lavoie plans to use his money from selling some of his shares to fund a hotel he is renovating in Pontebba, Italy's northeastern Friuli region, plus a small brewery.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Ross Simmons found the water-damaged copy of “The Antiquities of Athens” while renovating a house in the seaside town of Kiama, south of Sydney.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The project’s funding is restricted to renovating the campus and does not include the conservation of the Watts Towers themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Perhaps Vincent thinks they are tearing it down, not renovating it.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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