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
P&O Cruises has apologised to almost 1,900 passengers for cancelling one of its cruises because a ship's refit was not complete.
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
“I have to refit my outfit,” Buford said.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
I have been much more sympathetic than more modern refits.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
Similar refits in other buildings will be crucial in a transition to circular construction, says Jeffries.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022
The company's commercial director Txema Rubio said as much as 10% of purchase value tends to be spent annually on maintenance and refits.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 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
American whalers, having brought into port the British arctic relief-ship Resolute, a derelict, Congress purchases it, refits it, and sends it to Queen Victoria as token of American good-will.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 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
The three-mast, 131-foot vessel was built in Delaware as the cargo carrier Edwin and Maude before being refitted and renamed.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023
Both the Liaoning - a refitted ex-Soviet vessel - and the Chinese-built Shandong have jump ramps for take offs, which limit the number and range of aircraft on board.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
Yes, some of these “covers” are a little too unexpected: When Diamond’s intensely interior musings are turned into duets and awkwardly refitted as plot numbers, it’s hard not to roll your ears.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Then of his touching Aiolos’s isle and how that king refitted him for sailing to Ithaka; all vain: gales blew him back groaning over the fishcold sea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
But refitting crypto mines for AI is expensive and in some cases the companies have had to sell some of their Bitcoin holdings to fund the switch.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
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 company lost that competition and Lake then tried refitting the boat for minesweeping, salvage and rescue work, renaming it the Defender.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 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
