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renovation

[ren-uh-vey-shuhn] / ˌrɛn əˈveɪ ʃən /


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The house in Hockley, Essex, was undergoing renovation work when a worker found the scrap of paper and passed it to Michelle Harwood, who now lives there.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The current owners of the lodge took over in 2018, completed a major renovation in 2023 and wish “to remain private,” a representative said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The “Spider-Man” star is understood to have snapped up his primary residence in Kingston upon Thames, not far from where he grew up, in 2018—before launching into a yearslong renovation in 2020.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

We went after the renovation, and I was working in the South Tower on the 47th floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

You might not have known what was happening by observing life at the Greenbrier, which continued to be upgraded and whose renovation was completed during the 1930s.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

By 2007, they were in the process of withdrawing from eight to four floors, after having spent $1 million on renovations, and renting the other four out.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Today, my wife, Tonya Winfield, and I are living in Century City in Los Angeles while our house in Bel-Air undergoes renovations following damage from atmospheric river storms a few years back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

With renovations now set to cost around 2.4 billion euros, university president Fatma Deniz blamed "decades of delayed investment and budget cuts in public infrastructure".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Like so many renovations, this one came with plenty of surprises and setbacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

“After the game at Yankee Stadium, when Mel Stottlemyre took you up to meet the boss, did you ask him to have Kowalski and Associates do the renovations so that Meryl Lee could stay?”

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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