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"One potential future direction is to repurpose these drugs to target overactivation of glial cells and perhaps reverse some of the phenotypes in tauopathies"

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Essentially, the auto maker will repurpose battery capacity once destined for EVs into backup power packs for utilities and data centers.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

James Kingett, from SRTRC, said the charity had also lost a significant number of local authority contracts after austerity measures saw many councils repurpose funding.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Apple has found ways to repurpose these chips in later product releases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

I dismantled my sleeping nest to repurpose its branches and hewed off additional ones from nearby trees.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Watching Banderas spend a day simmering his own handcrafted ketchup simply to store it in repurposed Heinz bottles says everything about the guy’s devotion to food and his indifference toward marketing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The researchers conclude that portions of the original median eye were repurposed during evolution.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

It includes facilities that contain centrifuges for making isotopes that could be repurposed to enrich uranium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Working in food, my office is quite literally the kitchen: I write at a repurposed steel prep table, with my laptop on top and Dutch ovens stored below, that sits directly beside the stove.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

They tell a miniature story: In the first, a tram has just arrived, a streetcar, repurposed for these transports.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Ford’s grid-scale energy-storage business, for example, involves repurposing its EV battery factory in Kentucky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Bureau of Land Management said in its authorization that repurposing the pipeline for water “would comply with all applicable statutes and regulations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Ford is repurposing battery production that it expected to use for its electric vehicles, because EV sales have slowed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

"We have learned things from the pandemic, particularly around the benefit of repurposing known drugs to treat infections," she said.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

They had very little, but that wasn’t immediately obvious: Mia was good at repurposing.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng