rewrite
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Those arguments haven’t satisfied an array of activists, who urged the council to rewrite the agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sumner was a radical Republican on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement, and as an abolitionist, he was fighting to rewrite the Constitution using Frederick Douglass’ language.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
In February, Anthropic announced the creation of an AI tool that can rewrite Cobol computer code into a modern language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted that the lyrics quoted above received a subtle rewrite.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
What if we rewrite everything we expect from happy endings?
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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"The study rewrites the timeline for the koala's genetic history in Australia," says PhD student Toby Kovacs, who led the research.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
It also says proposed amendments have to go through the Legislature twice, with an election in between, giving voters another chance to be heard on constitutional rewrites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In situations when clients wanted more-substantial rewrites, I could charge a few hundred dollars for an essay.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Even when he rewrites precedent and invents his own doctrines, his steps have been plotted years in advance.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
This is a constant struggle around my mother, who systematically rewrites history to suit her views of the world.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Congress rewrote the charitable-deduction rules, effective Jan. 1, 2026, with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and every change pushed value away from the deduction and toward your adjusted gross income.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The bill rewrote the math on charitable giving,” says Kevin Knull, chief executive officer of TaxStatus.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
Thorne also rewrote Piggy’s last scene, although his fate remains the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
In one hour 59 minutes and 30 seconds, the 31-year-old Kenyan rewrote the boundaries of possibility.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
If you look close, you can see the smudges where he erased a word or two and rewrote it.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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Institutional judgment becomes meaningless when operational directives can be rewritten on a whim overnight.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Both candidates said there was potential grounds for a legal challenge to the rewritten duties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The rules of international trade are being rewritten.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
He pointed to disagreements in the Beatles and the Rolling Stones: “People are going to feel underappreciated, the leader is an easy target, and histories get rewritten through each individual’s eyes,” White wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
I’ve rewritten my whole History of Magic essay to include some of the things I’ve found out.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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According to Pangram, A.I.-assisted writing “is text a person wrote partly with help from an AI tool—for example, editing or rewriting parts.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The ability to hold another person’s reality alongside one’s own, without reducing it or rewriting it, requires training, repetition and exposure.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Mr. Woolfson’s book, which is subtitled “Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence,” proposes not the gene-by-gene editing of today’s most ambitious therapies but a more radical rewriting of the human genome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Through her audacity and fierce self-belief, Osterberg was a prime mover in rewriting the playbook for women in British sport.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
After he flew past the finish, rewriting the course record, he looked back up the long straightaway.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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