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
Lutnick was so displeased that he made Greer and the Indian official redo the meeting—this time on his turf at the Commerce Department, according to people with knowledge of the meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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
Translators "have to rewrite the whole thing, redo the translations, but they still only get paid the reduced rate," said Holly Parsons, a Spanish-to-English translator at the beginning of her career.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
“A little cleanup, a little wood polish—” “I heard they’re going to have to redo the whole gym floor,” Sanderson put in.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
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
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
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
She said that Southern California Edison redid the poles and wires in her area several years ago as part of wildfire prevention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
Even projects that were close to being completed had to be redone to comply retroactively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
A lawyer currently advising some private equity sales told the BBC that after the Tiger Global ruling, all deal valuations and calculations will have to be redone in case they are scrutinised by tax authorities.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
“But we’ve completely redone the important stuff. It’s a nice size for what we need.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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
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
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
