redo
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Aviation safety experts said the new details regarding the flight indicate the pilots waited too long to redo their landing attempt and showed signs of poor teamwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Earlier, the judge briefly blocked the city from continuing with the implementation and is now deciding whether to require the Mamdani administration to scrap its rollout and redo it with greater due diligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Every time I have to redo something she did or correct her, I leave a comment explaining why.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Swaths of stubborn flies bother his mechanics as they work, and he’s had to redo paint jobs and clear coats tainted by the thick dust from the warehouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I tell her, “Nothing, about to take out my braids so my mom can redo my hair.”
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
This recycled trash is no treasure, but I’m betting the majority of this redo’s audience will be young enough to find ’90s-style schlock adorably quaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
Additionally, a backlog of companies waiting to IPO, which leads to debt stack redos, has been building and M&A is growing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
There’s genuine pain in the film’s core idea of daddy redos and sibling resentment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
If you just practice your swoops a little bit, and you get infinite numbers of redos when you're swooping, you can just keep swooping to your heart's content.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
“Think about what you can save on redos alone” — which could translate to more investment in design and materials.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2019
Only endless remakes, redos, fusions, whatever crap they call them now.
From Nature ● Jun. 27, 2017
He said construction of the warehouse project must stop while the county redoes the report in a manner that complies with the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
He meticulously redoes the foul lines with a string and wheelbarrow of paint, which Wilson prefers over chalk.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
She scraps the work she did under his prying eye, and redoes it her way when he’s not around.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
Anything I do manage to finish, she redoes with a sigh.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2020
It takes me four tries to get the tie on, and Dad still redoes it when he sees me.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
I just redid my personal website from scratch in 20 minutes without writing a single line of code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“We redid all of them in this area,” the first-term council member proudly said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
"We redid our analysis at multiple spatial and taxonomic scales," Baldwin said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
In the 1920s, they redid the waterfront, opened it up, got rid of some of the piers.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
Then Payne redid his experiment, only this time he sped it up.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
But, Goldberger goes on, “neither Trump’s arch nor his redone reflecting pool nor his gaggle of statues is a meaningful new layer of history.”
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
Soup to nuts: This phrase is a non-value-add in most cases as we can tell from the context of the statement something is being looked at or redone completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
One of my other brothers works in construction and says much of the work done fixing the house was done poorly, and will need to be redone.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025
The brand’s classic Oliver Sun frame was redone in three shades — black, tortoise and clear — to reflect a Southern California laid-back attitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
He’d redone it without the word treasure written over the X or any of the other notations.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
He’s proposed a 250-foot arch in front of Arlington National Cemetery, redoing the reflecting pool, and even adding his face to passports and coins.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
If we get it for $1.3 million, we could put another $300,000 into gutting and insulating it, redoing the electrics and upgrading the windows and doors, and do the rest over time.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
Lay’s is redoing the bags too, ditching the crinkly sheen for a heavier, matte finish emblazoned with pictures of potatoes and chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
There's £4.75m in redoing the whole thing, those pieces would contribute a lot.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
In the room beyond, a woman in a cat suit with a tail made of orange fake fur is redoing her make-up.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
