- past participle of rewrite.
rewritten
Example Sentences
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Institutional judgment becomes meaningless when operational directives can be rewritten on a whim overnight.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
The rules of international trade are being rewritten.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 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
But Sue Sim, former chief constable of Northumbria Police, called for the 2022 document to be withdrawn and rewritten.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
