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- verb Present participle of
renovate .
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Examples
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New jobs have been created in renovating schools, building roads, etc.
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New jobs have been created in renovating schools, building roads, etc.
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In person, Krugman is several shades warmer, grousing about jet lag and delays in renovating the $1.7 million co-op he recently bought on Riverside Drive.
Paul Krugman, incensed and insistent about our economic ills Howard Kurtz 2010
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It is a topic of some discussion that in renovating our house, I want to save all the old mouldings and Misterpie thinks it will be too much trouble and that he can just replicate them with new stock.
Archive 2007-01-01 kittenpie 2007
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It is a topic of some discussion that in renovating our house, I want to save all the old mouldings and Misterpie thinks it will be too much trouble and that he can just replicate them with new stock.
More Fluff: A Slice of Meme kittenpie 2007
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Borrowing money from friends and family, he invested $500,000 in renovating a half-built building to open the 3,300-square-foot patio and ice cream shop.
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Many of the new French frocks which I saw were indeed beautiful pictures, but they offered but little to the woman of average means, who wanted to study their good points with the idea of using them in renovating her own gowns ….
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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In other words, Indian corn is what old writers used to call a “fallow crop” -- or what we call a renovating crop.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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Many workers here just aren’t skilled enough to do the work involved in renovating an old property.
Oh, whoops! Richard 2006
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Grant for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Gersowitz, who also owns a home in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, said his next project may entail renovating a small ranch house on his additional plot of land nearby.
Orange Hue for Hamptons Modern Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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