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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

Since then, the building has undergone a £2m refurbishment that has seen a complete internal refit to the public areas and screens, and "substantial" repairs to the roof and stonework.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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

A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, meanwhile, cost $260 million merely to refit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Similar refits in other buildings will be crucial in a transition to circular construction, says Jeffries.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022

Air Force officials unveiled plans Feb. 10 to begin discontinuing several older platforms, including retiring some A-10s even as it refits others with new wings.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2020

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

Asked how many tankers were not seaworthy and needed to go to dry docks for refits to meet international shipping standards, the senior official said: "Around 20 large tankers ... need to be modernized."

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2016

These "refits" were needed not only by the ships but also by the men who worked them.

From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife

The report urges Swinney's government to embrace the opportunity to craft "refitted" councils which can play a fuller role in poverty reduction, in partnership with the third sector.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

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

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

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

China is now investing heavily in refitting coal-fired power plants to make them more suitable for meeting peak electricity needs, said Zhou Xizhou, a longtime specialist in Chinese energy who is now at S&P Global.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

This addition of tonnage and weaponry was not, however, the main outcome of this second refitting.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler