as in to repair
to put into good shape or working order again
asked my neighbor to help me recondition the old tractor for use on the family farm
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Recent Examples of recondition
The Heat listed Jovic (broken right hand), Pelle Larsson (right ankle sprain) and Kevin Love (return to competition reconditioning) as questionable for Friday’s play-in game against the Hawks.
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
Devlin says his district’s savings will be applied toward reconditioning the Axioms, in addition to buying more football equipment.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
Their cleaning process involved a water and vinegar soak followed by reconditioning with Bickmore Bick 4, a leather conditioner.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
The other noteworthy change to All In, All Covered is that the Axiom helmets must be reconditioned every two years.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
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Crews are also repairing roads in Topanga Canyon after the fire and ensuing rain damaged them and closed the community to outside traffic.—
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Often, after years of trying to repair their relationships without success, these same women often bear the emotional and logistical labor of calling an end to them.—
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Trump has also suggested that the United States may reimburse oil companies for their work rebuilding Venezuela's oil infrastructure – a prospect some Democratic lawmakers denounced.—
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Staff worked for months to rebuild, navigate permits, and complete restoration efforts before finally reopening their doors.—
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In the study, the researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of osteoderms across squamate reptiles – the group that includes lizards and snakes – over a span of around 320 million years.—
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By combining measurements of different elements in Earth's crust and mantle, rock core observations, and natural gamma-ray data from Jurassic-era lake mudstones, the team reconstructed how environmental conditions changed through time.—
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Rather than just fix the problem, the sport might want to identify what exactly the problem is.—
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Some of the most compelling accessibility tech didn’t try to fix vision so much as translate the visual world into something usable.—
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“Recondition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recondition. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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