repurpose
Example Sentences
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“It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen.”
In the past it has also temporarily repurposed a natural gas pipeline to carry crude oil.
From BBC
This provides a concrete example of how a core part of the chromosome can be completely restructured over evolution by repurposing DNA that once looked like genomic "junk."
From Science Daily
Meanwhile, video game clips repurposed as Iranian missile strikes and AI-generated images of US warships being sunk, including the USS Abraham Lincoln, have garnered millions of views across major platforms.
From Barron's
"What excites us is the idea of repurposing well-known drugs and even commonly found food ingredients like caffeine to do entirely new tricks," Zhou said.
From Science Daily
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