retrofit

The newest jet in the fleet—one donated by the Qatari government—underwent a rapid $400 million retrofit to fly by July 4, America’s 250th birthday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Nobody actually opposes air conditioning, they insist; the buildings are simply old and hard to retrofit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

To use as bargaining chips for either a big name like the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo or, better yet, to acquire important foundational pieces to retrofit the roster around Luka Doncic?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

The alternative to this is to build new bespoke plants or retrofit existing facilities with new kit, from companies like Colorado-based AMP.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

The Center has since benefitted by a forty-million-dollar retrofit, but there's still enough forest and swamp on the facility for the Border Patrol to put in tracking practice.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

On Net Zero he proposes a "Northern Way", which subsidises the transition, retrofits, cutting bills, and building exportable locally owned industry.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

There are industry divides over which bill allows more flexibility to comply with new mandates and whether airlines should be required to make potentially costly retrofits of cockpit systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The ADS-B In retrofits might not be compatible with hundreds of planes in the U.S. commercial fleet, according to Bedford, the FAA administrator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

While some local governments across California have required retrofits of older, seismically risky buildings, many others have not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

Amid Southern California’s most seismically active year in decades, some cities have yet to require retrofits of many apartment buildings deemed most at risk of collapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024

For excursions on land, Green Safaris’s lodges have retrofitted Land Rovers to run on batteries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Dahlia and Mark discuss what happens when popular constitutionalism is retrofitted as originalism, and why no constitutional win, no matter how popular, is ever truly permanent.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

A vehicle was retrofitted so that Lillard could drive.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The billionaire president has barely been able to contain his excitement over the retrofitted Boeing 747-8 aircraft, which took him to Ankara on its maiden trip outside the United States.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Bratton retrofitted a city bus and turned it into a rolling station house, with its own fax machines, phones, holding pen, and fingerprinting facilities.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

The US has spent months retrofitting the $400m Boeing 747-8 to prepare it for the president.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

At those levels, buyers can commission their own dream homes instead of retrofitting someone else’s fantasy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The Senate’s mandate would generally be more prescriptive on retrofitting aircraft, while the House’s version would allow more flexibility in how to comply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

In April the government approved a legal framework to allow people to convert their petrol and diesel vehicles into electric ones, known as "retrofitting".

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

Baron, who was obsessed with retrofitting Porsche street and racing cars, was a frequent customer at Beggs’ repair shop over the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026