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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

The new version of the book differs subtly from the one originally slated for March, with multiple sections revised and reworded.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2023

The newest version of the bill, however, has reworded language around the ratios.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2023

The last paragraph on page 375 was reworded to be less critical of John Adams.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

It was pulled two years later because of “high cost, privacy concerns, and public confusion about its purpose” — a polite rewording of “I look like a dork and everyone thinks I’m awful.”

From Salon Jul. 2, 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 House of Lords also backed rewording the bill to allow legal challenges in cases where an individual felt they had wrongly been labelled an adult.

From BBC Mar. 6, 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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