redo
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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
With July 4 approaching, the administration is rushing to redo a project in which Trump has taken a strong personal interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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
Eventually, investors will have to redo those numbers.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
We’d had to redo and scale it down when it turned out we didn’t have nearly enough green and black pieces.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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
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
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 just redid my personal website from scratch in 20 minutes without writing a single line of code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“We redid all of them in this area,” the first-term council member proudly said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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
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
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
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
Nearby, families squared off on newly redone tennis courts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
Her makeup was redone, her hair now up.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
He’s proposed a 250-foot arch in front of Arlington National Cemetery, redoing the reflecting pool, and even adding his face to passports and coins.
From Slate ● May 7, 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
Miss Saunders takes out a mirror and starts redoing her lipstick.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
