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reword

[ree-wurd] / riˈwɜrd /
VERB
say in different way
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I would reword stuff because it would feel a little harsh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Another common use is how to reword a message or how to fix an issue in a relationship.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

So perhaps you should reword that and put yourself in the active position of that sentence.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2023

If not, how might you reword the description to make it more accurate?

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

My advice is to reword the sentence: Somebody forgot a coat.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Lupica pauses, then, on the fly, rewords one of his blurbs about Leonard’s work.

From Washington Post

Here is a substantially reworded, engagement-optimized version for a general audience, with the original facts preserved and a light update in context.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026

The newsroom claimed credit when TeraWulf reworded its marketing materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Mr. Danchenko reworded Mr. Dolan’s email and sent it along for inclusion in the Steele dossier.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

He instead reworded his candid criticisms in more diplomatic language than he used in the semiprivate meetings with SPD.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

In 1866 the rule was reworded, but with no improved effect, and in 1868 the National Association decided, as the only way out of the dilemma, to recognize the professional class of players.

From Base-Ball How to Become a Player by John M. Ward

The results were “very close to the originals: same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

But that would require an interpretive vision that the cuts, rearrangements and distracting instances of rewording fail to supply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

The changes include allowing the courts to consider the safety of Rwanda and rewording the plans to allow legal challenges in cases where an individual feels they have been wrongly labelled an adult.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024

Pérez-Díaz proposed rewording the climate standard to “describe how human activities over the past 150 years, including the release of greenhouse gases, influence climate.”

From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2022

But the lady had endless trouble deciding what to say; she kept starting and stopping and rewording what Penelope had already written down, until page after page was ruined and had to be copied afresh.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood


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