rewrite

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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

During the actual filming of the show, they had to rewrite storylines on the fly as unexpected events took place.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

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

From Salon • May 20, 2026

On Tuesday, Canada’s chief trade negotiator, Janice Charette, said there is no appetite among federal officials to significantly revise or rewrite USMCA’s underlying terms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

But it would have been better to rewrite the sentence to convey the contrast from the start, using an unambiguous connective such as alternatively.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker