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recondition

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




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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

Unseld said before the game that Beal will need time to recondition, but the plan was for him to travel with the Wizards on their upcoming trip.

From Washington Post Dec. 12, 2022

So you can take an older battery and recondition it, and it’ll be much better for many years.

From The Verge Jan. 24, 2022

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

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

His specialty is handmade British doubles, which he imports, reconditions and resells.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 compared the function and safety of reconditioned pacemakers to new devices, with patients randomly assigned one or the other.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

City officials said they’d previously fined the shop for its e-bike charging practices, though inspectors reportedly did not check to see if the store was selling reconditioned batteries on a recent visit.

From Seattle Times Jun. 23, 2023

After housing support service Engage Leeds provided her with the reconditioned tablet, she secured an office job at the NHS in Leeds.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2023

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

CarMax plans to open four new stores in fiscal 2027, plus two stand-alone auction facilities and two stand-alone reconditioning and auction centers.

From Barron's Apr. 14, 2026

Though reconditioning costs came in higher than anticipated, Carvana said it expects to be able to bring them down over time through a large-scale production facility with simpler and more data-driven operations.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 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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