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rewrite

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

The White House on Tuesday pointed to Chinese money-laundering networks and Mexican cartels as the basis for the rewrite of know-your-customer rules.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

This was bad news for Hutton, of course, but good news for science as it cleared the way for a man named John Playfair to rewrite Hutton’s work without fear of embarrassment.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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