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
Aurora is currently in Rotterdam in the Netherlands as its refit continues.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
A P&O Cruises spokesperson apologised for the cruise's cancellation, putting it down to the refit delay.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 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
“But it’ll work if you’ve got room. Anyway, we can refit your well. Or rig up some longer cables? It should go in just fine.”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
I have been much more sympathetic than more modern refits.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
Some companies in the U.S. construction industry have shown interest because they worry that competitors from Europe and China may export prefabricated materials needed for speedy home refits if U.S. companies don’t start making them.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 27, 2022
Since the scandal broke, it has cost the company more than 32 billion euros in fines, refits and legal costs.
From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 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
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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
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
Last November, I was shown the newly refitted vehicle equipped for trauma care and vaccinations and told it could treat up to 200 children a day.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Americans officials call it the FrankenSAM program, combining advanced, Western-caliber, surface-to-air missiles with refitted Soviet-era launchers or radars that Ukrainian forces already have on hand.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
The tanks are being refitted to meet Ukraine’s needs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 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
Such a refitting process, says aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia, managing director of AeroDynamic Advisory, would take years, until 2030 at least.
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
The home field change is due to Interbay Stadium undergoing refitting to be ADA compliant.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 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
McNeish began refitting the twenty-two-foot-long Caird for the journey, decking it over with packing crate lids and canvas, and raising the sides.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
