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reword

[ree-wurd] / riˈwɜrd /
VERB
say in different way
Synonyms


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I would reword stuff because it would feel a little harsh.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

Another common use is how to reword a message or how to fix an issue in a relationship.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

He searched his brain to reword the instructions.

From Slate Sep. 30, 2023

Note that when you revise, you may choose to reword your frame and the sentences that develop it.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

I reword that last bit in my mind, then cut it altogether.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

Lupica pauses, then, on the fly, rewords one of his blurbs about Leonard’s work.

From Washington Post

Here is a substantially reworded, engagement-optimized version for a general audience, with the original facts preserved and a light update in context.

From Science Daily Apr. 20, 2026

The newsroom claimed credit when TeraWulf reworded its marketing materials.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 5, 2026

The newest version of the bill, however, has reworded language around the ratios.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2023

Mr. Danchenko reworded Mr. Dolan’s email and sent it along for inclusion in the Steele dossier.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2022

It was reworded by Albert in such fashion as to give to the government of the United States an opportunity for adjustment without loss of dignity.

From Abraham Lincoln by Putnam, George Haven

It was pulled two years later because of “high cost, privacy concerns, and public confusion about its purpose” — a polite rewording of “I look like a dork and everyone thinks I’m awful.”

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

But that would require an interpretive vision that the cuts, rearrangements and distracting instances of rewording fail to supply.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2026

The changes include allowing the courts to consider the safety of Rwanda and rewording the plans to allow legal challenges in cases where an individual feels they have been wrongly labelled an adult.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2024

Pérez-Díaz proposed rewording the climate standard to “describe how human activities over the past 150 years, including the release of greenhouse gases, influence climate.”

From Scientific American Jun. 26, 2022

But the lady had endless trouble deciding what to say; she kept starting and stopping and rewording what Penelope had already written down, until page after page was ruined and had to be copied afresh.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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