redo
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Swaths of stubborn flies bother his mechanics as they work, and he’s had to redo paint jobs and clear coats tainted by the thick dust from the warehouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The plaintiffs are asking the court to delay the tax rollout and force the city to redo the process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
I’m feeling victorious so I humor her, even letting her redo my hijab in the latest style.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
If I don’t do it his way he redoes it.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
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
So he redid it himself, grinding up to 10 hours a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
“I just redid this bathroom because my brother, when they were tearing down the pink house, he got the sinks,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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
Sure enough, when Levanthal redid the experiment, one small change was sufficient to tip the vaccination rate up to 28 percent.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
Soup to nuts: This phrase is a non-value-add in most cases as we can tell from the context of the statement something is being looked at or redone completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
“And you’re probably thinking, like, ‘Girl, like, that does not look like it’s redone.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
When she was done, I felt like a brand-new princess with my hair neatly parted down the center and redone in two braids.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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
She spent a whole day redoing the drawing on different sheets of paper, coloring it in, trimming it to size, taking it to the university copy center.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
