as in repairing
to put into good shape or working order again
will have to renovate the house extensively before we can move in
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Recent Examples of renovating
The New York Times reported the Kardashian family matriarch purchased the home in 2010 for $4 million and allegedly spent millions renovating it over the years.
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Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
The 13 million euro investment includes renovating and building new industrial facilities for weaving, dyeing and finishing.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
Institutional investors contribute to the housing supply by buying and renovating derelict homes, and then putting them back on the market, said Edward Pinto, senior fellow and co-director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Demolition would cost nearly $55 million, according to OCA, while renovating the Astrodome would require a staggering $752 million.
—John Lomax V, Houston Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2026
Bigelow paid her rent by renovating apartments with Philip Glass.
—Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Now, the school is renovating its chemistry and biology buildings, overhauling its Rosen College of Hospitality Building and expanding its football stadium to add more than 60 suites.
—Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
Shapiro already accomplished many of the tasks he was brought to Toronto to oversee, building a new player development complex and renovating Rogers Centre.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Trump spoke about renovating the room earlier this month at the White House.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renovating
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Without adequate sleep, your body has trouble repairing tissues, regulating hormones and managing energy balance.—
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Receipts obtained by The Bee showed that most of the cost related to repairing the classroom involved asbestos abatement and testing.—
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The Gators are rebuilding under new Coach Jon Sumrall.—
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With the lasting impacts from the Palisades Fire still reverberating through Los Angeles a year later, Mayor Karen Bass reflected upon one of the state's worst natural disasters through an optimistic lens focused on rebuilding.—
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The governor committed to fixing this system.—
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In Altadena, employees with the small local water utilities raced across town protecting and fixing the water systems firefighters relied on.—
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Since 2014, the Russian military has opened several military bases in the Arctic and worked on reconstructing airfields.—
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Computational algorithms then synchronize the data afterward, reconstructing a single, coherent image.—
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“Renovating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renovating. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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