redo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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