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recast

[ree-kast, -kahst, ree-kast, -kahst] / riˈkæst, -ˈkɑst, ˈriˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /










VERB
revolutionize
Synonyms


VERB
rewrite
Synonyms


Example Sentences

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The impossible-to-ignore implication was that it was a test run, but Patterson felt that costumed friend walked too much like a human so he recast the role.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The White House ballroom was recast as a security project; now the arch has been too.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

The character will be recast for Season 2 of HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ TV show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Near the heavily fortified frontier dividing the Korean peninsula, the abandoned Woljeong-ri station is being recast as a symbol of South Korea's hopes to reconcile with the North.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Aristotle had recast heredity as the flow of information—a river of code moving from egg to the embryo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Her confidante immediately hastens off to write “The Tears of the Comet,” an allegorical tale that decorously recasts certain incidents from his stay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The play, which radically recasts the fraternal relationship, developed far beyond its originating impetus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

The study also recasts homeobox gene TPRX2 thatencodes DNA-binding proteins.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

The remake, with a lone acoustic guitar, recasts the song as something between a lullaby and lament, crooned as if it’s a learned memory.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

To how many faith has been No evidence of things unseen, But a dim shadow that recasts the creed of the Phantasiasts.

From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall

RidgeAlloy is made by remelting aluminum recovered from used products and recasting it into a new alloy designed to meet the strength, ductility and crash safety requirements of structural vehicle components.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

Millennial and GenZ influencers, some paid by telehealth companies, evangelize antidepressants on TikTok and Instagram using such hashtags as #livelaughlexapro, #lexaprogirly, #lexaho and #zoloftgang, recasting the medications as pop-culture touchstones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

Playwrights addressed the polis not by dramatizing current events but by recasting tales from the mythological and historic past to sharpen critical thinking on contemporary concerns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

That is why he is recasting himself as a unifying figure - someone prepared to reach out across party lines to work with others to get things done.

From BBC ● May 4, 2025

If I really can’t sleep, I kill time casting and recasting both my coach and the genetically altered Hugh.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris


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