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
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
The inquiry said that during the refit of the building there was a failure to establish who was responsible for safety standards - ultimately leading to a “merry go round of buck passing”.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
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
Cardone thanked workers for participating at Tridonex, which refits second-hand car parts for sale in the United States and Canada, and said it would work with the winning union once officials certify the vote.
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 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
—Cease moan, Cytherea! leave pomps for to-day, And weep new when a new year refits thee for weeping.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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
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
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
But on the fourth anniversary of the conflagration, the prospect of a Notre-Dame refitted by the end of next year no longer seems so absurd.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
Everything was repaired, refitted, and recycled, and if one Smokey couldn’t put it to use, it was traded to another.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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 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
“So they’re amalgamating them, they’re refitting them, they’re reinforcing them and then moving them around,” Barrons told AP.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
He imagined himself as a dentist, removing that gold tooth, pocketing it, and refitting Mr. Trepid with something else, maybe something red, maybe plastic, shaped like a fang.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
