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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retooled
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Even transformed into an unexpected salty-sweet dessert (see chef Harold Villarosa’s Spam doughnuts).
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Technological advances — word processing, speech-to-text transcription, scheduling tools and apps — each transformed the duties of administrative professionals and contributed to overall decline.
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Hitler’s picture was exchanged for a painting of Alexander Hamilton, the father of the Coast Guard.
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The bulk of the messages were exchanged between 2001-2004, before Epstein first faced criminal charges in Florida in 2006.
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In the 1940s, the development of jet propulsion revolutionized aviation with faster, more efficient aircraft.
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Because in the early 1900s, Greek sponge divers came from the Dodecanese islands and revolutionized the sponge industry on Florida’s gulf coast.
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Last January, Biden commuted his sentence to 20 months as part of a series of clemency actions that included multiple other Florida residents.
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Milk was almost three decades into a life term on a manslaughter conviction when Noem commuted his sentence in 2023.
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But the fields that sloped toward the turquoise sea weren’t about to be cultivated with the vines of Merlot grapes or Regona cider apple trees or even acorns to be transmuted into jamón Ibérico.
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When presented as a wall installation, the pages are transmuted into an object signifying nothing but the imitation of writing by a depersonalized other.
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“Retooled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retooled. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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