rewritten

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The rules of international trade are being rewritten.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026

The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026

And estate documents drafted before 2026 generally need to be rewritten around the problem that’s now arriving, rather than the problem the older documents were drafted to solve.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026

But ever since the laws of the game were rewritten in 1997 to prohibit challenging the keeper mid-catch, the man between the sticks has become a protected species.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

Likewise, the logician would argue, You only live once should be rewritten as You live only once, with only next to the thing it quantifies, once.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker