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rewrite

[ree-rahyt, ree-rahyt] / riˈraɪt, ˈriˌraɪt /
VERB
revise
Synonyms


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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

"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

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

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

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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