as in to rebuild
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Elizabeth Olsen stars in this incredibly claustrophobic haunted-house thriller about a young girl named Sarah who’s fixing up an old house with her father and uncle.
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
The power tools and hand tools needed for homebuilding and fixing up existing homes are made by Stanley Black & Decker whose brands include those namesakes as well as Dewalt for pros and Craftsman for consumers.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The group has logged almost 100,000 hours fixing up homes in what is a win-win for the community and the airmen.
—Allie Torgan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
Handy with tools, Daniel offers to help Katie fix up her new home.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
The power tools and hand tools needed for homebuilding and fixing up existing homes are made by Stanley Black & Decker whose brands include those namesakes as well as Dewalt for pros and Craftsman for consumers.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The group has logged almost 100,000 hours fixing up homes in what is a win-win for the community and the airmen.
—Allie Torgan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
Handy with tools, Daniel offers to help Katie fix up her new home.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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King Charles' grandfather, King George VI, laid the foundation stone when the hospital was rebuilt in 1928, and though the medical hub shuttered in 2005, the chapel remains open to the public today as a place of meditation.Janine Henni, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Accompanied by an expert local guide, guests can explore the tranquil grounds, which are ritually rebuilt every 20 years to embody the impermanence and renewal at the heart of this belief system.Scott Campbell, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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Further health-care provisions would overhaul the regulation of pharmacy-benefit managers.The Editors, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Adding to the challenges of overhauling an entire correctional system are the traumas that happen within prison walls.Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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The city is making plans to repair damage from a Halloween tornado that tore through parts of the community.Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Newsom said the funds will aid in repairing and expanding the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, a project that is already underway but will take five years to complete.Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Right now there is also a spot that can be used to launch yourself with the Impulse Grenade over a wall, which is the kind of game-breaking hack that would be patched out within hours in Ballistic‘s contemporaries.Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
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Cowart’s recent affirmation helped patch things up.Rich Juzwiak, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
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The findings also demonstrate how skilled anthropologists have become at reconstructing ancient DNA and analyzing it to make inferences about the course of human history.Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The one-of-a-kind historic structure consisted of two separate barns originally built in Surrey, England, in the 1700s, carefully dismantled and then reconstructed in California.Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 26 Nov. 2024
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South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff predicted that Pyongyang plans to ship additional forces to aid its Russian ally.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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In the past four years, Su has, inadvertently perhaps but through her own fecklessness aided hostile foreign actors, abused her federal authority to cover it up, and made innocent California employers pay for it.Will Swaim, National Review, 26 Dec. 2024
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Somehow, that doesn’t cure Guillermo’s melancholy, and the other vamps theorize about why this is bothering Guillermo so much.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 16 Dec. 2024
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Nitrosamines are found in water, cured and grilled meats, dairy products and vegetables, according to the FDA.Anthony Robledo, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2024
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This includes Alcoholics Anonymous, which has helped countless people.Malaka Gharib, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
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Additional cuts to interest rates could also help facilitate more deals, as the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell revealed last week that the central bank is now projecting just two interest rate cuts in 2025 (compared to a projection of four cuts in September).John Hyatt, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Fix up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fix%20up. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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