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Recent Examples of fix up
The funds would have also allowed the city to buy and fix up the Jackson County Regional Animal Shelter, which is currently operated by the city but owned by Jackson County.
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
And apparently a bone spear point was worth trying to fix up and reuse, because traces of grinding show that someone tried to smooth out the crack, probably with a stone tool.
—ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
The impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs will soon make fixing up your home cost a lot more.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Phase 3 would have fixed up the second and third floors.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
And apparently a bone spear point was worth trying to fix up and reuse, because traces of grinding show that someone tried to smooth out the crack, probably with a stone tool.
—ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
The impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs will soon make fixing up your home cost a lot more.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Phase 3 would have fixed up the second and third floors.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fix up
Verb
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Less than a week after the explosion destroyed his fertility clinic, Dr. Maher Abdallah vows to rebuild.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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From Iraq to Rwanda, domestic tax codes have been leveraged to jump start rebuilding.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Emerging platforms are now helping standardise commercial and financial data, enabling firms to shift from retrospective reporting to predictive forecasting, without the need to overhaul entire tech stacks.—
Angelica Krystle Donati,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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The moves come after President Trump and the secretary vowed to overhaul the Federal Aviation Administration.—
The Hill Staff,
The Hill,
28 May 2025
Verb
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After arriving in Italy, Dad was put in charge of a group, mostly mechanics, at a hangar in an airfield and kept track of the parts and supplies needed to repair the planes that landed there.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2025
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The revenue generated will be devoted to repairing the city’s subway system.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Mia’s father, Bill, was away on a trip and was patched in to the call.—
Barbara Demick,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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So far, the program has surfaced one universal jailbreak which Anthropic subsequently patched, a spokesperson says.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
22 May 2025
Verb
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In 1950, the wall was reconstructed to control erosion and create artificial beaches.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
23 May 2025
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The film reconstructs the story behind Godard’s cinema classic.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
22 May 2025
Verb
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She was aided on the DeLeon groundout by a spectacular play by Karlie Davison at second base, who laid out to field the ball and made a strong throw to beat the runner to first.—
Ethan Westerman,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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Fire crews on the ground were being aided by aircraft.—
Kristina Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
Verb
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Optimists like Marc Andreessen, co-creator of the Mosaic browser, insist that artificial intelligence will solve our most pressing problems—curing disease, eliminating scarcity, even boosting creativity to superhuman levels.—
Robert B. Tucker,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Within three months, Dave, a physical therapist in Overland Park, cured my leaky gut problem.—
Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
Verb
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As the Hall of Fame notes, the group was heavily influenced by Black musician Lesley Riddle, who helped A.P. with songs and taught Maybelle his guitar style.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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This change likely helped these Anna’s hummingbirds conserve heat, since their beaks help with thermoregulation, as the team showed with an infrared camera.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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