rewrite

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To come into effect, the New York Legislature still needs to approve the amendment a second time next year, and then voters have to bless the constitutional rewrite in a referendum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Having walked off her late-night show rather than fire Ava in Season 4, she is determined to rewrite her premature obituary by playing Madison Square Garden.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Translators "have to rewrite the whole thing, redo the translations, but they still only get paid the reduced rate," said Holly Parsons, a Spanish-to-English translator at the beginning of her career.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Metaxas’s sad attempt to rewrite recent history is fitting.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

He’d try it the other way too, then backtrack, then rewrite what he’d written, again and again, until he couldn’t even tell if what he was writing was different from what he’d written before.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen