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rework

[ree-wurk, ree-wurk] / riˈwɜrk, ˈriˌwɜrk /


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"Other schedule risks remain, including the detailed designs for the aircraft interiors, fabrication of the wire bundles, and rework to correct defects in structural modifications," the report said.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

Now, as the burger chain prepares to rework that menu starting Tuesday with even cheaper options, including some for under $3, some see the move as a strength.

From MarketWatch Apr. 20, 2026

To rework Karl Marx’s famous maxim, sometimes historical events can be tragedy and farce at the same time, and repeat themselves in the same register.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

Mayor Karen Bass vetoed a similar bid to rework the disciplinary process in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

I loved watching her go over her lessons and rework them based on what worked and what didn't the day before.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

A Workday study from January, meanwhile, showed that of the seven hours gained each week from AI productivity, nearly three were given back by corrections and reworks.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

And in the long run, as the company reworks its manufacturing processes, the company says the new diaper may end up being cheaper to make than older models.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

The director of “Chicago” and “Dreamgirls” reworks the Broadway musical into a thematic powerhouse that stars Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and breakout Tonatiuh.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

This includes contributing guitar on the sizzling new Duran Duran single "Black Moonlight," a collaboration with Nile Rodgers that sounds like a stone-cold disco-funk classic, and on reworks of several older Duran Duran tracks.

From Salon Sep. 30, 2023

The Compleat Memoirs then reworks the texts of the two Parts into a smooth, chronologically consistent narrative.

From The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus by Elkanah Settle

The company last month closed its acquisition of the AI cybersecurity company Portkey and reworked CyberArk, which it acquired last summer, as Idira — an identity security service focused on AI agents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

In her first show for the brand, new Fendi designer Maria Grazia Chiuri showed a collection that included "remodelled" furs, or pieces from old furs reworked into new designs.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

Grande and Robledo also favor Inside Safe but say it is too expensive and needs to be reworked.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

The film was reworked and a series of reshoots took place after the discovery, and Michael now instead concludes in 1988, before any accusations were made.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

But then Kin reworked it and added an embedded iron design: a little goat on the right side.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Society shall yet be rewrought and born again.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Striking, also, was the effect of this idea as rewrought by the early Ionian philosophers, to whom it was probably transmitted from the Chaldeans through the Phoenicians.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White

If Chinese companies can do leading-edge AI better and more efficiently with open-weight models, the reasoning goes, plans to spend untold sums on data centers and chips might need reworking.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

This reworking of Rein Me In, from Fender's third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching, features an extra verse about the breakdown of a relationship from a female perspective, from Dean.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Companies are in the early days of reworking operations around AI, and much about the technology’s long-term impact on jobs isn’t fully known.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Steyer would do this in part by reworking the complicated affordable housing finance system to better use public money and attract more private capital, while finding ways to add housing on public lands.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

Thus the claim that there is a new concept of evidence in the 1660s is mistaken; wherever we look what we find is nothing but the reworking of Quintilian’s distinctions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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