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retrofit

[re-troh-fit, re-troh-fit, re-troh-fit] / ˈrɛ troʊˌfɪt, ˌrɛ troʊˈfɪt, ˈrɛ troʊˌfɪt /
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adapt for use with something older
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The fourth was to retrofit mobile storage systems in the park’s museum storage facility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Leaders must scramble to retrofit workplaces like hospitals and schools with air conditioning, support farmers switching crops, and build out irrigation systems and water reservoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The most disruptive part of the retrofit work was carried out first, and included the insulation of shared walls, flooring and the roof.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The newest jet in the fleet—one donated by the Qatari government—underwent a rapid $400 million retrofit to fly by July 4, America’s 250th birthday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Center has since benefitted by a forty-million-dollar retrofit, but there's still enough forest and swamp on the facility for the Border Patrol to put in tracking practice.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

Nearly 50% of Nuveen Green Capital’s deployment activity is focused on new construction, with the rest being allocated to building retrofits for things like solar energy upgrades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

American Airlines expects screens to be installed across its full fleet by early in the next decade, with retrofits starting in 2028.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

On Net Zero he proposes a "Northern Way", which subsidises the transition, retrofits, cutting bills, and building exportable locally owned industry.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

In my mind, I feel a reimagining of access is required — not as a set of retrofits or accommodations, but as a creative opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

The ordinance will take effect April 1, launching an 18-month screening phase where owners of suspected vulnerable buildings will be asked to fill out a form to help determine whether retrofits are needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

Bunch said he didn’t initially like the 19th century, castle-like space on the National Mall to be retrofitted for the $1 billion museum, but he said museum leaders convinced him it was a good home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

"Once that multi-gigawatt power infrastructure has been retrofitted to AI or HPC colocation, there is no turning back," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The expansion follows Waymo’s launch of its new vehicle dubbed the Ojai, which is larger and cheaper to produce than the retrofitted Jaguar I-Paces that the company previously relied on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

His first floor was now being retrofitted to accommodate his wheelchair—its doorways widened, its kitchen sink lowered—part of a joint effort between a nonprofit called Rebuilding Together and the company that owned Sears and Kmart.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He compares what Huskeys does for web security to retrofitting an old car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Longer term, he said the UK needed a more strategic approach, including collecting better data, targeted retrofitting of existing homes and learning from hotter countries through measures such as external shutters and reflective exterior paint.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Given the need for retrofitting, remediation, replacement of obsolete utility systems and massive grading involved, Garcia was not surprised by the long development time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

At those levels, buyers can commission their own dream homes instead of retrofitting someone else’s fantasy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

In April the government approved a legal framework to allow people to convert their petrol and diesel vehicles into electric ones, known as "retrofitting".

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026



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