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retrofit

[re-troh-fit, re-troh-fit, re-troh-fit] / ˈrɛ troʊˌfɪt, ˌrɛ troʊˈfɪt, ˈrɛ troʊˌfɪt /
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adapt for use with something older
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The fourth was to retrofit mobile storage systems in the park’s museum storage facility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Leaders must scramble to retrofit workplaces like hospitals and schools with air conditioning, support farmers switching crops, and build out irrigation systems and water reservoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The most disruptive part of the retrofit work was carried out first, and included the insulation of shared walls, flooring and the roof.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Ortberg said Boeing is using a “side shop,” a factory where retrofit work for those older 777 airframes could be done without interrupting production of new jets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

Toyota produced few RAV4s in January and February after two plants in Ontario, Canada, underwent major retrofits for the overhauled 2026 model—sold for the first time only as a hybrid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Most of Walmart’s supply-chain buildings were built in the 1980s and ’90s, so about 80% of its automation construction projects are retrofits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

In my mind, I feel a reimagining of access is required — not as a set of retrofits or accommodations, but as a creative opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

It’s traditional masculinity retrofitted for a progressive audience.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Kieran Maguire, professor of football finance at the University of Liverpool, told BBC Sport the commission found "the documents were retrofitted to fit the crime".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Two perfectly-tuned sets, retrofitted for this decadent monolith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Bunch said he didn’t initially like the 19th century, castle-like space on the National Mall to be retrofitted for the $1 billion museum, but he said museum leaders convinced him it was a good home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

His first floor was now being retrofitted to accommodate his wheelchair—its doorways widened, its kitchen sink lowered—part of a joint effort between a nonprofit called Rebuilding Together and the company that owned Sears and Kmart.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Waymo retired the design in 2017 and moved forward with retrofitting existing cars with sensors that enable humanless driving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Jones noted that the state offers grants through the Earthquake Brace+Bolt program to partially cover the cost of retrofitting older single-family homes that can slide off their foundation in an earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Longer term, he said the UK needed a more strategic approach, including collecting better data, targeted retrofitting of existing homes and learning from hotter countries through measures such as external shutters and reflective exterior paint.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 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


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