- past participle of rewrite.
rewritten
Example Sentences
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The rules of international trade are being rewritten.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026
Throughout history, innovations including gunpowder, chemical weapons and airplanes have repeatedly rewritten rules of combat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
And estate documents drafted before 2026 generally need to be rewritten around the problem that’s now arriving, rather than the problem the older documents were drafted to solve.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
Both see a need to move homeless people into housing, and both have said that Measure ULA, the city’s tax on high-end property sales, needs to be rewritten to spur apartment construction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
She wondered if her mother truly had lost—if she’d hidden Arachne away and rewritten the truth.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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