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redo

[ree-doo, ree-doo] / riˈdu, ˈriˌdu /


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When asked by the Wall Street Journal Magazine in 2024 if there was a role he’d like to redo, his answer was “La La Land.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

A year later, he decided to redo them with a more lyrical quality, resulting in the band’s breakup.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The upshot: The redo to the Fed’s favorite price gauge, the so-called core PCE index, is likely to show inflation rising a little more slowly this year than previously reported.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

What you end up having to do is actually go through it again and redo all of it from scratch.

From BBC May 28, 2026

She made me stay late and redo the homework.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

The Labyrinth Canyon-Gemini Bridges travel management plan is the highest profile of these redos so far.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2023

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

Poppy, the waitress and single mother in Alexa Martin’s Fumbled, redoes her own kitchen with the help of Pinterest and free classes at the local Home Depot:

From Slate Nov. 27, 2020

Overnight, inspired by Micheline, Clarence redoes his entire collection and sends his houseful of female cutters, seamstresses, administrators, and secretaries into a frenzy of activity.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2018

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

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

“I did the analysis, and I redid the analysis, and I redid the analysis, because I wanted to be sure of what I’m seeing,” Weyer said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

Outside, Brettler redid the pool, which was falling apart, and added a bathroom, a bar and concrete pavers that will move with earthquakes.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 11, 2025

"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

He held on with his legs, trying to ignore the pain and sticky blood on his hands as he redid the serpent’s wiring.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

They picked up the waterfront property as one of their “getaway destinations” and had it redone in the “classic tradition of the Adirondacks.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

All HGV drivers must complete a D4 before getting their licence for the first time, while drivers over 45 must have them redone periodically to prove they are still safe to operate the vehicles.

From BBC Jun. 19, 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

“And you’re probably thinking, like, ‘Girl, like, that does not look like it’s redone.’

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

He’d redone it without the word treasure written over the X or any of the other notations.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

This applied to rearranging my childhood bedroom furniture after reading about feng shui in a magazine, redoing my makeup when we were already late and, eventually, cooking.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

"I write the scripts, I plan the scenes, and keep redoing things because the AI generation messes up constantly," they wrote.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

However, he warned one metric—hours spent redoing work on the narrow-body jets—was still lackluster.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 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

It’s like they had talked to each other beforehand about redoing their image at the new school, but hadn’t bothered to clue me in.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio




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