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redo

[ree-doo, ree-doo] / riˈdu, ˈriˌdu /


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"It didn't go how we planned but we will have to find time to redo it," Jacks smiled.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Investigators released details last week that indicated the two pilots belatedly decided to redo their landing before deciding to brake and stop the plane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

After sending it in, McGregor asked him to redo the tape, offering a few notes, including that he needed to physically be more still.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Every time I have to redo something she did or correct her, I leave a comment explaining why.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Most of the girls still had to change and redo their hair.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

This recycled trash is no treasure, but I’m betting the majority of this redo’s audience will be young enough to find ’90s-style schlock adorably quaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Additionally, a backlog of companies waiting to IPO, which leads to debt stack redos, has been building and M&A is growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

There’s genuine pain in the film’s core idea of daddy redos and sibling resentment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

If you just practice your swoops a little bit, and you get infinite numbers of redos when you're swooping, you can just keep swooping to your heart's content.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021

“Think about what you can save on redos alone” — which could translate to more investment in design and materials.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2019

Only endless remakes, redos, fusions, whatever crap they call them now.

From Nature ● Jun. 27, 2017

He said construction of the warehouse project must stop while the county redoes the report in a manner that complies with the law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024

He meticulously redoes the foul lines with a string and wheelbarrow of paint, which Wilson prefers over chalk.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

She scraps the work she did under his prying eye, and redoes it her way when he’s not around.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2020

If I don’t do it his way he redoes it.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019

It takes me four tries to get the tie on, and Dad still redoes it when he sees me.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

When the Pratts recently redid their bathroom, Gina Pratt explained, Harvey couldn’t hold back from sculpting small, figurative frescoes into the spackle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

"We redid our analysis at multiple spatial and taxonomic scales," Baldwin said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

In the 1920s, they redid the waterfront, opened it up, got rid of some of the piers.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

She redid the floors in the kitchen herself and paid for her own gardener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

"For you. I already told you they redid it."

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

Even projects that were close to being completed had to be redone to comply retroactively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

But, Goldberger goes on, “neither Trump’s arch nor his redone reflecting pool nor his gaggle of statues is a meaningful new layer of history.”

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

One of my other brothers works in construction and says much of the work done fixing the house was done poorly, and will need to be redone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025

"I think I ripped it off at some point in the second so I just needed to get it redone."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

We’ve redone the security cams, rewired the stadium, and security detail has been doubled.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

While she originally thought the project might cost $12,000, the final bill for redoing the driveway climbed to $30,000 in the summer of 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

If we get it for $1.3 million, we could put another $300,000 into gutting and insulating it, redoing the electrics and upgrading the windows and doors, and do the rest over time.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

How about redoing the building code to make it possible to construct small apartment buildings like single-family homes—that is, quickly and cheaply?

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2025

There's £4.75m in redoing the whole thing, those pieces would contribute a lot.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024

“He totally bought that bit about Ray redoing the driveway.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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