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replumb

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as in to remeasure

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Recent Examples of replumb Named for a president eager to replumb the West, Roosevelt Dam was completed in 1911, one year before Arizona became a state. — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

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Enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act required UPS to remeasure its UPS IBT Pension plan at current discount rates, which have increased since the previous measurement date.

— Walter Loeb, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
Petco groundskeepers may want to remeasure the distance from the plate to the fence.

— San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020

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Hemsworth’s work has always spanned genres—just look at his omnivorous DJ sets—but Numbskull positions him as a more traditional songwriter, underscored by the album’s personal, earnest tone.

— Mehan Jayasuriya, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
No prior bubble spanned so many dimensions of the economy simultaneously—GDP growth, consumer spending, equity markets, debt markets, and venture capital all tethered to a single theme.

— Ming Lu, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

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There are some authors who plumb the roots of their own concerns or anxieties, while others work tirelessly to build worlds out of words and ideas.

— Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026
There is no reading of the statute under which enforcing the Building Code includes plumbing a restaurant’s kitchen.

— Fabiola Stuyvesant, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

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