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  • verb Present participle of refurbish.

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Examples

  • Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered legacy, the President hopes to raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

    December 2006 2006

  • I have owned bicycle shops and am currently active in refurbishing bicycles for continued use.

    RECYCLED BICYCLE FURNITURE by Frida Ottemo Kallstrom | Inhabitat 2006

  • If any refurbishing is underway, you'll be able to see at a glance the places that (a). are being fixed and (b). need fixing, and should not be trod upon.

    May 9th, 2005 2005

  • He said Jim Earley, the Hayden School District's technology director, approached him with the idea of refurbishing used laptops that were donated to the district and then providing them to seniors who are attending college next year.

    craigdailypress.com stories < 2010

  • Instead of more overbuilt highways, now is the moment to improve the infrastructure servicing this sector such as refurbishing and extending our inland waterways system over which most of our grain is transported, improving port facilities and refurbishing and adding to our grain storage capabilities both inland and at ports of export loading.

    Raymond J. Learsy: Food -- The American Midwest at the Cusp of an Economic Renaissance Raymond J. Learsy 2010

  • Instead of more overbuilt highways, now is the moment to improve the infrastructure servicing this sector such as refurbishing and extending our inland waterways system over which most of our grain is transported, improving port facilities and refurbishing and adding to our grain storage capabilities both inland and at ports of export loading.

    Raymond J. Learsy: Food -- The American Midwest at the Cusp of an Economic Renaissance Raymond J. Learsy 2010

  • Those funds are intended to cover additional work such as refurbishing factories and cleaning up environmental damage, though lawmakers could decide to shift them to other termination categories.

    Contractors Face Shutdown Costs as NASA Space Program Morphs 2010

  • Instead of more overbuilt highways, now is the moment to improve the infrastructure servicing this sector such as refurbishing and extending our inland waterways system over which most of our grain is transported, improving port facilities and refurbishing and adding to our grain storage capabilities both inland and at ports of export loading.

    Raymond J. Learsy: Food -- The American Midwest at the Cusp of an Economic Renaissance Raymond J. Learsy 2010

  • Instead of more overbuilt highways, now is the moment to improve the infrastructure servicing this sector such as refurbishing and extending our inland waterways system over which most of our grain is transported, improving port facilities and refurbishing and adding to our grain storage capabilities both inland and at ports of export loading.

    Raymond J. Learsy: Food -- The American Midwest at the Cusp of an Economic Renaissance Raymond J. Learsy 2010

  • Even some Democrats argue that House leaders made a mistake by including items that made easy targets for Republicans, such as refurbishing the National Mall and allocating money for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, some of which were later removed.

    Obama Turns Up Heat, Slams GOP Ideas 2009

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