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rework

[ree-wurk, ree-wurk] / riˈwɜrk, ˈriˌwɜrk /


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Nearly 80 faculty and staff formed 10 design teams and spent months soliciting ideas and suggesting ways to rework the organizational structure.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

I try to go early and can always find art or furniture to rework and give new life.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

To rework Karl Marx’s famous maxim, sometimes historical events can be tragedy and farce at the same time, and repeat themselves in the same register.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

“But given the rework timeline, we do not currently expect this issue to impact our year-end delivery total.”

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

I rework every sentence a few times before going on to the next, and revise the whole chapter two or three times before I show it to anyone.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

A Workday study from January, meanwhile, showed that of the seven hours gained each week from AI productivity, nearly three were given back by corrections and reworks.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

And in the long run, as the company reworks its manufacturing processes, the company says the new diaper may end up being cheaper to make than older models.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

He withdrew it, and yet he takes the theme, which is dark and foreboding, and reworks it in this last piece as a private moment of catharsis.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2024

This includes contributing guitar on the sizzling new Duran Duran single "Black Moonlight," a collaboration with Nile Rodgers that sounds like a stone-cold disco-funk classic, and on reworks of several older Duran Duran tracks.

From Salon Sep. 30, 2023

It is but the man that dies, the Universal Whole of which he is part reworks him into its inmost self.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

The company last month closed its acquisition of the AI cybersecurity company Portkey and reworked CyberArk, which it acquired last summer, as Idira — an identity security service focused on AI agents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

In her first show for the brand, new Fendi designer Maria Grazia Chiuri showed a collection that included "remodelled" furs, or pieces from old furs reworked into new designs.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

The film was reworked and a series of reshoots took place after the discovery, and Michael now instead concludes in 1988, before any accusations were made.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

Last year, that committee dramatically reworked Bass’ budget, shifting cuts to other parts of the city workforce.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2026

Not long ago, a group of psychologists reworked the divorce prediction test that I found so overwhelming.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Society shall yet be rewrought and born again.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Striking, also, was the effect of this idea as rewrought by the early Ionian philosophers, to whom it was probably transmitted from the Chaldeans through the Phoenicians.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

This reworking of Rein Me In, from Fender's third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching, features an extra verse about the breakdown of a relationship from a female perspective, from Dean.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The specifics of Martha Graham’s choreography notwithstanding, it is the bright openness of Copland’s music, its resolutely optimistic cast—particularly his reworking of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts”—that has implanted itself in the national imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

"As we stand on the edge of our 250th year of independence, I am thrilled to declare that America is back," Trump said, reworking a familiar rallying cry.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Steyer would do this in part by reworking the complicated affordable housing finance system to better use public money and attract more private capital, while finding ways to add housing on public lands.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

Thus the claim that there is a new concept of evidence in the 1660s is mistaken; wherever we look what we find is nothing but the reworking of Quintilian’s distinctions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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