refit
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Another strength of the Chinese is that they are able to retool and refit their refineries much quicker to treat different grades of crude.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
"We've added over 100 aircraft, nearly completed the refit of legacy narrowbodies, and begun inducting widebodies with new interiors. At the same time, we've laid critical infrastructure... to support our long-term ambitions," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Preparations are under way to refit a Qatari jumbo jet that is expected to serve as Air Force One for President Donald Trump, CBS, the BBC's US news partner, reports.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
He even hired an architect named Peter de Vries to help design plans for the refit of the new barge so that it could sail to the Saya de Malha Bank and survive there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
His girth required Donal Noye to take apart a mail hauberk and refit it with leather panels at the sides.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Similar refits in other buildings will be crucial in a transition to circular construction, says Jeffries.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022
The settlement marks a major milestone in the carmaker’s efforts to turn a page on the scandal, which has cost it more than 32 billion euros in vehicle refits, fines and legal costs so far.
From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2021
The loophole that Pruitt was seeking would have eased pending restrictions on so-called glider trucks - a booming sector of truck-making that refits older, dirtier truck engines with new truck bodies.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
Rather, it refits their mental engines, calibrating them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or otherwise produce something society deems valuable.”
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2019
She refits her hats and bonnets, retrims her dresses, and in a thousand busy, earnest, happy little ways sets herself to make the most of her small income.
From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The jet has already been refitted by the military, and is to be used until Boeing delivers two new aircraft in the coming years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Beginning with tobacco, they refitted the dusty doctrine as a battering ram and swung it at guns, lead paint, opioids and oil companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The Bayesian was built by Italian shipbuilder Perini in 2008 and was last refitted in 2020.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
Wall Street analysts had expected the decline, which they attributed to production slowdowns as Tesla refitted factories in the United States and China.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
She told him she’d gone to the doctor that afternoon to have it refitted, and so he’d put it out of his mind.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The European Parliament’s decision to send its just-signed trade agreement with South America for legal review served as a sharp reminder this week of just how challenging refitting the EU will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
I even go to him sometimes when I need help with hand placement and refitting, because he’s a technician at it.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The 250-foot-long vessel, the Petrel, was bought by the Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen in 2016 and underwent extensive refitting to take part in expeditions to explore shipwrecks around the globe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Transit leaders said they will develop a plan for the nearly unprecedented step of refitting 5,984 wheels onto 2,992 axles of all 748 rail cars in the series.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
This addition of tonnage and weaponry was not, however, the main outcome of this second refitting.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
