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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 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 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

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

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

Nearly 50% of Nuveen Green Capital’s deployment activity is focused on new construction, with the rest being allocated to building retrofits for things like solar energy upgrades.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

American Airlines expects screens to be installed across its full fleet by early in the next decade, with retrofits starting in 2028.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 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

These efforts don’t have to be expensive, he said, pointing to a list of low-cost retrofits from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2025

In South Pasadena, with a population of 26,000, building official Dennis Tarango said the city has no plans to create an inventory of soft-story apartment buildings or consider mandatory retrofits.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2024

Alphabet-owned Waymo, which leads the robotaxi race with operations in 14 cities, uses existing traditional vehicles retrofitted for autonomy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

"Once that multi-gigawatt power infrastructure has been retrofitted to AI or HPC colocation, there is no turning back," he said.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

On a recent summer day, Leong stepped into a Volkswagen microbus that he had retrofitted with Tesla batteries, a side project that expanded his interests from software to hardware engineering.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 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

But the Passivhaus Trust - for which Baeli is a non-executive director - acknowledges retrofitting your home to this standard is "expensive".

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Experts say retrofitting those could be prohibitively expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

One study, published in 2020, discussed how experts might recommend retrofitting riskier buildings.

From Los Angeles Times 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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