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rewrite

[ree-rahyt, ree-rahyt] / riˈraɪt, ˈriˌraɪt /
VERB
revise
Synonyms


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All of these disclosures didn’t just rewrite Chavez’s legacy, but Huerta’s as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

AI can already write code and rewrite emails and summarize meetings and prove abstract math conjectures and figure out why your washing machine keeps making that strange beeping noise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Two months later, Raman unveiled a plan to ask voters to rewrite Measure ULA, calling for her ballot proposal to be fast-tracked to the council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

But his advisers had another idea to rewrite history.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I erased my entire hard drive last night. I need to load everything back on and rewrite that essay for English. Hey, Brady, remember those oxymorons we talked about in lit the other day?”

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

That Ms. Browne has risen to that difficult task twice, expertly revising her earlier effort, would have pleased Darwin, that master of rewrites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"The study rewrites the timeline for the koala's genetic history in Australia," says PhD student Toby Kovacs, who led the research.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

In situations when clients wanted more-substantial rewrites, I could charge a few hundred dollars for an essay.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Even when he rewrites precedent and invents his own doctrines, his steps have been plotted years in advance.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

This is a constant struggle around my mother, who systematically rewrites history to suit her views of the world.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Some players, including Brooks Koepka, have since returned to the PGA Tour, which rewrote its rules in December to allow the five-time major winner to come back, subject to certain sanctions.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

According to Bono, he and Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid rewrote the lyrics and Parton agreed to sing that version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

An OpenAI model undergoing testing rewrote its own instructions, telling itself to disregard “the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Congress rewrote the charitable-deduction rules, effective Jan. 1, 2026, with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and every change pushed value away from the deduction and toward your adjusted gross income.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

It seemed to get worse each time I rewrote it, but I couldn’t stop myself.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

“When New York’s constitution was rewritten in 1846, anti-rent measures were written into the document,” we are told.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A few lines in your letter could be rewritten to reframe your history.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

A judge ruled the legislature’s summary unfair and ordered it rewritten.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

However, he also said that the compact is woefully out of date and should be scrapped and rewritten to match the reality of the shrinking river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

By early July 1844, he had expanded and rewritten the rough pencil draft.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

An archaeological site in the Jordan Valley is rewriting the timeline of early human migration.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Others, however, will insist the rewriting of history is the only way of restoring the competition's official record, and rewarding clubs that competed within the rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

A player who is rewriting the NFL record book is more likely to come back and torch the Giants than to have two poor performances in a row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The same caution goes for rewriting the product liability or antitrust laws to let the firms cooperate to define and police the AI frontier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

But Newton was a great one for rewriting history in his own favour, and the inverse square law emerged much more gradually than the story suggests.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin


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