as in to reedify
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In the lead-up to his return, Trump has made allies out of the Silicon Valley billionaires who threw up nothing but roadblocks for him eight years ago.—
Max Thornberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
2 Feb. 2025 -
The woman at the office threw up her hands and unleashed a torrent of Spanish.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The focus, to this point, has clearly been rebuilding the pitching staff.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Temporarily housing Gazans in dignified conditions elsewhere while the devastated territory is rebuilt under the watchful eyes of America and its allies would provide the Gazan people with much-deserved relief while depriving Hamas of its source of power and income.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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In 2022, South Carolina retrofitted its execution chamber to provide for a firing squad at a cost of about $54,000, according to The Associated Press.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Feb. 2025
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Even budget carriers, like Southwest Airlines, are retrofitting planes to expand premium economy cabins and offer seat selection and slightly more legroom.—
Christine Chung,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Our players have to carry them to the top of the hill and reassemble them.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2025
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The standard governs the safe disassembling, testing, and reassembling of EV batteries into stationary energy storage.—
Katie Fehrenbacher,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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His ring finger on his right hand was fully amputated and his middle finger was partially amputated, with attempts made to reconstruct it.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2025
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The recorders are installed to help reconstruct precisely what happened leading up to a crash.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
30 Jan. 2025
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Guggenheim Architecture and Design Studio The dining room at a Parkdale, Oregon, retreat designed by Guggenheim Architecture and Design Studio combines a concert of natural wood finishes, celebrating the palette of the rural setting.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2025
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Butler and Curry combined for 59 points in a comeback win over Chicago.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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With that in mind, the City Council is taking a different approach this time and using the Urban Land Institute Assistance Panel (ULI), which specializes in helping cities create a plan to redevelop large parcels of land.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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The plan was to redevelop it into a traditional shopping destination.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Jan. 2025
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The development — dubbed Heritage Place — is the realization of a compromise that community members, stakeholders and the city devised a few years ago to keep Kroehler mansion from demolition.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Feb. 2025
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But one way of doing this is an SRO, meaning the SEC and the CFTC would jointly create an SRO that would devise these standards, and that would pull in industry expertise.—
Steven Ehrlich,
Forbes,
31 Jan. 2025
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