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  • verb Present participle of refurb.

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Examples

  • KnitSonya did a fantastic job refurbing these old theater seats with fresh upholstery and so on:

    Boing Boing

  • Use the workers to do infrastructure improvements -- bridge building, national park maintenance, urban cleanup, even refurbing gutted inner city homes.

    Printing: REAL Bottom-Up Job Creation Ideas

  • But what I do doubt is whether it's worth refurbing a never-particularly-brilliant pipe organ.

    Archive 2009-07-01

  • Use the workers to do infrastructure improvements -- bridge building, national park maintenance, urban cleanup, even refurbing gutted inner city homes.

    REAL Bottom-Up Job Creation Ideas

  • Having been in a few different London theatres over the years there are quite a few that would benefit from some serious refurbing.

    The West End Is In Crisis! Again!

  • But unless ET or her hubby is actually responsible for Ujima's woes or the sale was corrupt or the money isn't going to support other building or refurbing work then the story is of limited interest.

    Suz Blog: Calling on Lib Dem Whingers to Grow Up

  • He's taken to refurbing beautiful old jalopies, and his lyrical and nutso descriptions of his loves are delightful.

    Boing Boing: August 29, 2004 - September 4, 2004 Archives

  • I am refurbing several older homes and building some new ones………all with existing different methods that interest me as well as some that are my own design…For those of you who have logged on saying that you were building a new home and WHAT insulation do I use?

    NEW IDEAS FOR GREEN INSULATION | Inhabitat

  • Charities, having examined the cost of refurbing and using obsolete computers donated by well-meaning patrons, have started to turn away junk machines.

    Boing Boing: January 6, 2002 - January 12, 2002 Archives

  • I asked her when she thought United might start looking into new planes, or at least refurbing the ones already in the fleet.

    Forbes.com: News

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