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renovate

[ren-uh-veyt] / ˈrɛn əˌveɪt /


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Now, the company hired to renovate the landmark has acknowledged that the biggest problem came from the renovation itself.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Baum and Whiteman won the proposal to renovate, which cost $25 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Hammond said he plans to look after the home, as the previous owners had, but hopes to renovate some aspects.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Seyfried previously told Vogue it took her “10 months” to renovate the home, adding that she kept its “rustic charm.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

“Like I was telling you, Chino, when Nazario acquired the first buildin’, the cops would drive by and see Puerto Ricans workin’ on tryin’ to renovate a building.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

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

Through this initiative, Ivorian artistic director Lemon Otto renovates external facades of older building such as Pyramid, which was completed in 1973 under the direction of the Italian architect Rinaldo Olivieri.

From Reuters Apr. 24, 2023

He prefers a comfortable hotel on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, where he recovers health and renovates his nervous system by taking daily excursions along the coast to the Casino.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen

When Cameron isn’t practicing his moves with pro partner Sharna Burgess, the “Bachelorette” alum has a very personal real estate project to retreat to: his extensively renovated home in Jupiter, Fla.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The building in Stonyhurst Street, Possilpark - which was derelict for 20 years - had received £3m to be renovated as affordable homes.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

And “Aperture,” the culmination, is Harry in his comfort phase, the New Yorker who has watched everything around him get renovated and priced out and has grown, in spite of it, into his own confidence.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

Along the way, the company joined Station F, the vast tech start-up incubator housed in the Halle Freyssinet, a renovated rail freight depot in Paris.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Bodega had bought the entire row from the city and had slowly renovated three of them.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

And is building a new home - or renovating an old one - the best way to balance the books?

From BBC Aug. 1, 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

Bloom spent a year and a half renovating the home.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Soon they were living in this house, while renovating their original house on Dart, and renting out the other house next door.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers




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