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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

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

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

They show their limited ANI nature as soon as they get out of their comfort zones—try asking Siri to reword a sentence, or to name three things larger than a lobster.

From Slate Dec. 29, 2018

My advice is to reword the sentence: Somebody forgot a coat.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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 new version of the book differs subtly from the one originally slated for March, with multiple sections revised and reworded.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2023

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

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2023

"Charles reworded the gospel tune 'Jesus Is All the World to Me' adding deep church inflections to the secular rhythms of the nightclubs, and the world was never the same."

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

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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