reinterpreting
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When the administration argued the ease of modern travel necessitated reinterpreting the constitution, Chief Justice John Roberts quipped: "It's a new world. It's the same constitution."
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
"The old methodology involved collecting thousands of experimental results and reinterpreting them to get the single number, the magnetic moment of the muon," Fodor said.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Jordi Brullas, a friend and restaurant guru, once told me, “Chefs in Barcelona are reinterpreting tradition with great respect, but without fear.”
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
“Even those who remember products from the past often want their slice of nostalgia alongside something new and innovative, so that means reinterpreting and reinventing slightly,” Saunders said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Ceremonies of this sort have great vitality—they are handed on from age to age, the later religion adopting and modifying and reinterpreting the forms of the earlier.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
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