overhaul
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Reading “The Wilder Way” might not overhaul your life, but it will surely help you see how easily a fuller one can be had.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Transit experts and airport officials believe the 2.25-mile electric train — a roughly $3.3-billion endeavor and the most anticipated project in LAX’s $30-billion overhaul — will significantly improve traffic at 1 World Way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The review suggests a sweeping overhaul of the Pip assessment system is needed.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The proposed rule seems sure to meet legal challenges, and employers, even with Aronowitz’s assurances, might remain reluctant to overhaul their plans.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
New York’s prison system in the early twentieth century, to his concerned eyes, was in need of complete overhaul.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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The whole German auto industry -- including VW's peers BMW and Mercedes-Benz with their suppliers -- has been struggling in recent years, with job cuts and overhauls increasingly common.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Draghi, who is also a former Italian premier, advocates significant public and private investment and policy overhauls to supersize companies so they can compete internationally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
With a knockout-round berth already secure, U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino overhauls his lineup, but the changes didn’t work in a 3-2 loss to Turkey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Austin’s housing market improved with a 19% drop in rents and home prices since 2022, following zoning law overhauls.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
A silence overhauls us, and the voice leaves me completely There’s no more breathing at the other end.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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The Lakers have overhauled the roster: All the players who started alongside Reaves in the playoffs last spring are gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Wales' planning system needs to be "overhauled" in order to build the homes the country needs, house builders have said.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In September, Tan overhauled Intel’s reporting structure and established a new Central Engineering Group, hiring Srinivasan Iyengar, the top silicon engineer at Cadence, to consolidate custom chip design efforts under one team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
For the sport to thrive, Caligiuri believes, the pay-to-play system has to be completely overhauled and the game needs to be made available to everyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
During the end of March and most of April, my father caught and salted alewives for crab bait, overhauled the motor on the Portia Sue, and converted it once more for crabbing.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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In addition to his work at CityWalk, Umphenour has been busy for weeks overhauling the projection setup at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
On Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service said it was overhauling its penalty process.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
The longer-term story is about overhauling an aging grid to absorb renewable-generation capacity that now provides nearly half of the European Union’s electricity, by official EU figures.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Some believe that when MBS became de facto ruler of the Kingdom in 2017, he inherited a system that badly needed overhauling.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
There was a flurry of overhauling and painting and mending to be done.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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