rework
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“They took the opportunity during the shutdown to rework the enterprise, to come out as a better, more profitable business,” Monroe said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The board said it was an appropriate move after GM executives scrambled to rework the company’s manufacturing footprint, saving at least $900 million on tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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
Now the CIA and military had a few days to rework it.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
Badu reworks Drake’s “Hotline Bling” to fit her own singular personality on this centerpiece from her 2015 mixtape “But You Caint Use My Phone.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The Compleat Memoirs then reworks the texts of the two Parts into a smooth, chronologically consistent narrative.
From The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus by Elkanah Settle
At UPI, I recast stories from the Los Angeles Times into wire copy, and at KNX I reworked wire stories into scripts for the anchors to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
While some are being reworked by zama zamas, many are filled with acidic water that contributes to sinkholes, said mining expert David van Wyk.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Is there something so odious about a potential reworked design that the only way to hustle it across the finish line is to give it a free pass?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The lyrics were reworked for the soundtrack to her 1992 romantic comedy film, Straight Talk.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
One of the riders in the chute reworked his grip around the rope.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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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 Andrew Dickson White
Society shall yet be rewrought and born again.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sphere also made a hit with an immersive reworking of the classic film “The Wizard of Oz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Her “Helen,” a satirical reworking of Euripides’ tragicomedy and the eternal beauty myth, ought to be better known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
"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
I keep reworking them, reclasping, but it still feels awkward.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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