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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

Liverpool have been vulnerable in defence ever since head coach Arne Slot and the club's recruitment team embarked on a £450m summer refit that has yet to prove anything like value for money.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 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

His girth required Donal Noye to take apart a mail hauberk and refit it with leather panels at the sides.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Some companies in the U.S. construction industry have shown interest because they worry that competitors from Europe and China may export prefabricated materials needed for speedy home refits if U.S. companies don’t start making them.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 27, 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

Asked how many tankers were not seaworthy and needed to go to dry docks for refits to meet international shipping standards, the senior official said: "Around 20 large tankers ... need to be modernized."

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2016

On a man-of-war they were supposed to have refits of everything, and men, properly qualified, in large numbers to carry out any prodigious feat.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Walter Runciman

The jet has already been refitted by the military, and is to be used until Boeing delivers two new aircraft in the coming years.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

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

Americans officials call it the FrankenSAM program, combining advanced, Western-caliber, surface-to-air missiles with refitted Soviet-era launchers or radars that Ukrainian forces already have on hand.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2023

By the time they let me visit my father again, the Coral Queen had been pumped dry, mopped clean, and refitted with new gambling equipment.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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

I even go to him sometimes when I need help with hand placement and refitting, because he’s a technician at it.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

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

All three of Saan’s ships had been in dire need of refitting, but.by now the work should be complete.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin