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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

The switch raised questions about the gifted jet that the U.S. spent $400 million to retrofit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

California residents can prepare for an earthquake in a number of ways including property owners assessing whether a retrofit is needed, even if it isn’t required by a city ordinance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

Officials also realized that Stations 33 and 37, known to require seismic retrofits, were actually in such bad shape that they needed to be torn down and rebuilt, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

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

More recently built structures need fewer upgrades and may not require seismic retrofits to meet safety codes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

Nobody knows where the Shakespeare nickname came from, but city officials designated the bridge as L.A.’s Historic-Cultural Monument No. 126 in 1974 and retrofitted it in the 1990s to better withstand earthquakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Waymo, the leader in autonomous ride-hailing, has around 4,000 cars on the road across 14 cities, though it uses retrofitted vehicles with special sensors to enable human-free driving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sing Sing, for reasons no one could ever explain to me, has never been retrofitted with gas.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

But when it comes to retrofitting older homes it can be complex due to having to find space for the equipment, which adds to installation costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Given the need for retrofitting, remediation, replacement of obsolete utility systems and massive grading involved, Garcia was not surprised by the long development time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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