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rewrite

[ree-rahyt, ree-rahyt] / riˈraɪt, ˈriˌraɪt /
VERB
revise
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Sumner was a radical Republican on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement, and as an abolitionist, he was fighting to rewrite the Constitution using Frederick Douglass’ language.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

If making money were as easy as we make it seem when we rewrite history, then why diversify or hedge your bets?

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Of course, one performance cannot rewrite the semi-final.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

In February, Anthropic announced the creation of an AI tool that can rewrite Cobol computer code into a modern language.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

On the basis of these, Dr. Leakey has said it’s time to rewrite completely the history of man’s origin.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

"The study rewrites the timeline for the koala's genetic history in Australia," says PhD student Toby Kovacs, who led the research.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

When Euphoria first launched, it quickly became one of the defining shows of its generation, but after a five-year break marked by strikes, rewrites and cast departures, it returned to a noticeably more divided response.

From BBC May 30, 2026

Some of it was spent gathering input from residents, public health groups, Native American governments and companies — feedback the agency addressed in subsequent rewrites.

From Salon May 10, 2026

It also says proposed amendments have to go through the Legislature twice, with an election in between, giving voters another chance to be heard on constitutional rewrites.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

I don't remember my character kissing any girls, and I start to ask Tiny about it, but he cuts me off, saying, "I've been in rewrites."

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

Congress rewrote the charitable-deduction rules, effective Jan. 1, 2026, with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and every change pushed value away from the deduction and toward your adjusted gross income.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Rather than simply replicate the original, Nash rewrote parts of the song and added a new verse reflecting her own experience of dual identity.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The rules of the road on swap dealers were set by Dodd-Frank, the landmark measure that rewrote financial regulations in the wake of the 2008-09 crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

“The bill rewrote the math on charitable giving,” says Kevin Knull, chief executive officer of TaxStatus.

From Barron's May 9, 2026

He wrote and rewrote the e-mail, not mentioning his wife or using the first person plural, trying for a balance between earnest and funny.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A judge ruled the legislature’s summary unfair and ordered it rewritten.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

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

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

By early July 1844, he had expanded and rewritten the rough pencil draft.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

In a city that had manifested an entire industry out of rewriting stories, I wondered whether the secret was simply to write a new one for myself.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

According to Pangram, A.I.-assisted writing “is text a person wrote partly with help from an AI tool—for example, editing or rewriting parts.”

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

Magyar has estimated rewriting the constitution would take one or one and a half years, promising to launch consultations on it next month.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Mr. Woolfson’s book, which is subtitled “Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence,” proposes not the gene-by-gene editing of today’s most ambitious therapies but a more radical rewriting of the human genome.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

This new regime—free money for capitalists, free markets for everyone else—plus the more or less instant rewriting of financial history vexed all sorts of people, but few were as enthusiastically vexed as Steve Eisman.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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