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recondition

[ree-kuhn-dish-uhn] / ˌri kənˈdɪʃ ən /




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At CarMax, Barr’s strategy revolves around improving CarMax’s digital capabilities, growing its in-house financing arm and reducing its costs to recondition used cars for sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

However, it warned of higher costs to recondition vehicles.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026

Some will be purchased by dealers who will recondition them and sell them as used cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

She has to hope that between now and late August she can somehow recondition and recover some of her pre-motherhood court speed.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2019

He’d been so horrified by the condition of what he called “the boss’s lawn” that he’d come by to recondition it.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

Family-owned Seattle Barrel, collects, reconditions and sells 55-gallon industrial drums.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2019

The hope is that “when you engage in the game pretty intensely for long periods of time, it actually reconditions how the brain processes information.”

From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2015

It was reconditioned after last season and recertified for use in 2011 by Stadium System, a company based in Canaan, Conn., that reconditions helmets for hundreds of schools around the country.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2011

Its Cinefonics division makes documentary films both for Cook and other companies; the Air Mod division reconditions Air Force planes and repairs electronic gear.

From Time Magazine Archive

He reconditions used cars in a 40,000-sq,-ft, $500,000 plant that he grandly calls "the Courtesy Conditioning Assembly Line."

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition, more than a dozen giants are currently in transition — that is, getting reconditioned or relocated.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Much of that equipment is being taken out of the plant to be rebuilt and reconditioned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

It means donated lungs which are considered "borderline" for use can be reconditioned and used, instead of being discarded.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

Three deaths occurred in the group with reconditioned pacemakers, but none were related to the implantation procedure, device infection or malfunction.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

Last week I sent a tuner over to my parents’ apartment and had the piano reconditioned, for purely sentimental reasons.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Carvana underwrites its own loans, giving it an advantage to used car salesmen, reflected in its cars worth $500 to $1000 versus rivals after reconditioning, helped by its scale, Bellas said.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Gross profit per unit is expected to normalize over coming quarters, and the reconditioning costs per unit would have been $220 lower if all the company’s locations were as efficient as the top 25%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

After a planned overnight stay, the astronauts will travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will begin standard postflight evaluations and physical reconditioning.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

The Mirrlees Blackstone MB275 engines have yielded cylinder heads, fuel pumps and fuel injectors which have been sent off for reconditioning.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

The only option was to ship all the magnets back to the manufacturer, Allis-Chalmers, for cleaning and radical reconditioning.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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