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rework

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


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Bills advanced by the Senate and Assembly aim to rework California’s climate spending, close an environmental review loophole and rein in electricity rates, among other efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Nearly 80 faculty and staff formed 10 design teams and spent months soliciting ideas and suggesting ways to rework the organizational structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“They took the opportunity during the shutdown to rework the enterprise, to come out as a better, more profitable business,” Monroe said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

"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

Lori didn’t have the spirit to rework the bust.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

As the name suggests, the collection reworks camouflage as a collage-like reflection of culture in public spaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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

While some are being reworked by zama zamas, many are filled with acidic water that contributes to sinkholes, said mining expert David van Wyk.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Is there something so odious about a reworked design that the only way to hustle it across the finish line is to give it a free pass?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

The lyrics were reworked for the soundtrack to her 1992 romantic comedy film, Straight Talk.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The advice and tactics that helped build software companies for years suddenly needed to be reworked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In Tannhauser, Lohengrin and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg he reworked ancient legend-fables so that his contemporaries would be uplifted by the chivalric pride inherent in the tales.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Society shall yet be rewrought and born again.

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

By reworking classic tracks and cleverly remixing songs to accommodate absent members, the group relied on pyrotechnics, their signature live band and sheer stage presence rather than elaborate staging.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Her “Helen,” a satirical reworking of Euripides’ tragicomedy and the eternal beauty myth, ought to be better known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

"As we stand on the edge of our 250th year of independence, I am thrilled to declare that America is back," Trump said, reworking a familiar rallying cry.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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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