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renovate

[ren-uh-veyt] / ˈrɛn əˌveɪt /


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Now, the company hired to renovate the landmark has acknowledged that the biggest problem came from the renovation itself.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Baum and Whiteman won the proposal to renovate, which cost $25 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Hammond said he plans to look after the home, as the previous owners had, but hopes to renovate some aspects.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Seyfried previously told Vogue it took her “10 months” to renovate the home, adding that she kept its “rustic charm.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

“You think I should renovate the Boston house?” he asked.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

Prices may go up as supply contracts, insurance payments flood in, and investment renovates buildings to code; prices may go down as rising premiums and maintenance fees get tacked on.

From Slate Oct. 9, 2024

Back in Baltimore, David Lidz runs Waterbottle Cooperative, a grassroots organisation that buys up decaying properties in Baltimore and renovates them to rent to people on low incomes.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2024

Beyond the Carter Center, the couple became the most famous volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, the international outfit that builds, repairs and renovates homes for low-income people.

From Seattle Times Jul. 6, 2023

Through this initiative, Ivorian artistic director Lemon Otto renovates external facades of older building such as Pyramid, which was completed in 1973 under the direction of the Italian architect Rinaldo Olivieri.

From Reuters Apr. 24, 2023

What however must be ever present is the Will by which man every moment of his life renovates his own personality.

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

The star quarterback will end it in a renovated, four-bedroom house with mountain views and a pool about 3 miles from the Tucson campus.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

When Cameron isn’t practicing his moves with pro partner Sharna Burgess, the “Bachelorette” alum has a very personal real estate project to retreat to: his extensively renovated home in Jupiter, Fla.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The building in Stonyhurst Street, Possilpark - which was derelict for 20 years - had received £3m to be renovated as affordable homes.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

And “Aperture,” the culmination, is Harry in his comfort phase, the New Yorker who has watched everything around him get renovated and priced out and has grown, in spite of it, into his own confidence.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

She’d recently gone into a business arrangement to run several nursing homes, and she and her partners had already purchased and renovated six of them.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

Samson Shi, general manager, expects sales to grow roughly 30% this year and is renovating a floor of his factory to accommodate more orders.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Ross Simmons found the water-damaged copy of “The Antiquities of Athens” while renovating a house in the seaside town of Kiama, south of Sydney.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

The project’s funding is restricted to renovating the campus and does not include the conservation of the Watts Towers themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Bloom spent a year and a half renovating the home.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

The next step in realizing Pops’s dream is renovating the motel portion of the OldMill, but like Nate said, there’s no rush on that.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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