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redo

[ree-doo, ree-doo] / riˈdu, ˈriˌdu /


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Every time I have to redo something she did or correct her, I leave a comment explaining why.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

“Maybe if I was older, I would redo my vows here,” said the 18-year-old.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

I continually said, “No, we’ve got to go back and do it again. We’ve got to rewrite that episode. We’ve gotta redo this whole section,” as it felt so personal to me.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

What you end up having to do is actually go through it again and redo all of it from scratch.

From BBC May 28, 2026

It was beginning to loosen, and I supposed I needed to redo it.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

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

Only endless remakes, redos, fusions, whatever crap they call them now.

From Nature Jun. 27, 2017

The rate was about the same in those getting redos.

From Seattle Times Sep. 25, 2012

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

Poppy, the waitress and single mother in Alexa Martin’s Fumbled, redoes her own kitchen with the help of Pinterest and free classes at the local Home Depot:

From Slate Nov. 27, 2020

Overnight, inspired by Micheline, Clarence redoes his entire collection and sends his houseful of female cutters, seamstresses, administrators, and secretaries into a frenzy of activity.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2018

It takes me four tries to get the tie on, and Dad still redoes it when he sees me.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

So he redid it himself, grinding up to 10 hours a day.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 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

She redid the floors in the kitchen herself and paid for her own gardener.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2024

“When the Garrets redid their kitchen, nobody saw Alicia for like, three weeks. Not one person thought she was dead.”

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

All HGV drivers must complete a D4 before getting their licence for the first time, while drivers over 45 must have them redone periodically to prove they are still safe to operate the vehicles.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

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

He knew that immediately after the opening all such work would have to be redone.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

This applied to rearranging my childhood bedroom furniture after reading about feng shui in a magazine, redoing my makeup when we were already late and, eventually, cooking.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

However, he warned one metric—hours spent redoing work on the narrow-body jets—was still lackluster.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 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

How about redoing the building code to make it possible to construct small apartment buildings like single-family homes—that is, quickly and cheaply?

From Slate Apr. 25, 2025

“Those seats need redoing, and that trim, and there’s a couple of leaks, and it needs a fair amount of sanding and varnishing.”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech




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