rework
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He later worked with professional curators to document and order it so he could use his own personal archive to rework projects he had previously abandoned.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Carnival Cruise Line fans rework their itineraries to ensure they’ll be on her ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Bills advanced by the Senate and Assembly aim to rework California’s climate spending, close an environmental review loophole and rein in electricity rates, among other efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“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
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
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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
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 Olive Schreiner
For decades after each racing season ended, factories reworked or dismantled their cars for parts, or else sold them with whatever chassis numbers and records existed for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Carmakers normally build buffer stocks before factories are reworked for a new model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The story was previously adapted into a 2011 film before being reworked as a musical with music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Company, a book by Rick Elice and directed by Jessica Stone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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
And at ten-meter resolution, the degree to which the landscape has been reworked first really becomes evident.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
By reworking classic tracks and cleverly remixing songs to accommodate absent members, the group relied on pyrotechnics, their signature live band and sheer stage presence rather than elaborate staging.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
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
For life to be detected on Mars photographically, even from Mars orbit, it must likewise have accomplished a major reworking of the surface.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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