rewrite
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In his campaign for the top Fed job, Warsh said he was open to a rewrite of the accord, but he hasn’t given any specifics.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Sumner was a radical Republican on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement, and as an abolitionist, he was fighting to rewrite the Constitution using Frederick Douglass’ language.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
DHS is also working on a broader regulation to rewrite the rules of OPT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Of course, one performance cannot rewrite the semi-final.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
"The study rewrites the timeline for the koala's genetic history in Australia," says PhD student Toby Kovacs, who led the research.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
In situations when clients wanted more-substantial rewrites, I could charge a few hundred dollars for an essay.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Simply for the sake of mixing up the challenge and shuffling the pack, F1 rewrites its entire rulebook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
He doesn’t just distract – he rewrites the story in real time, making the serious seem trivial, and the trivial seem epochal.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
“But why do I have to be the one who rewrites the future? We were only trying to get your dashiki back. That’s the only reason we’re here in the first place!”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Congress rewrote the charitable-deduction rules, effective Jan. 1, 2026, with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and every change pushed value away from the deduction and toward your adjusted gross income.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rather than simply replicate the original, Nash rewrote parts of the song and added a new verse reflecting her own experience of dual identity.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In March 2025, he rewrote the novel in five days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The rules of the road on swap dealers were set by Dodd-Frank, the landmark measure that rewrote financial regulations in the wake of the 2008-09 crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
They rewrote the curriculum from top to bottom, so that it only taught Nazi-approved ideas.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
A judge ruled the legislature’s summary unfair and ordered it rewritten.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Since taking the top job at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has rewritten rules and upended traditions that had for decades steered how the U.S. military buys weapons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Both candidates said there was potential grounds for a legal challenge to the rewritten duties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The rules of international trade are being rewritten.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
“The future may yet be rewritten, by those who can find the beauty in the darkness,” Ama says, the light from the fire casting onto her face.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
In a city that had manifested an entire industry out of rewriting stories, I wondered whether the secret was simply to write a new one for myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
According to Pangram, A.I.-assisted writing “is text a person wrote partly with help from an AI tool—for example, editing or rewriting parts.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Galperin said she has seen how creators of stalkerware have resisted changing their product function in favor of rewriting ad copy to say their software is meant for parents, employees or “building trust in relationships.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Magyar has estimated rewriting the constitution would take one or one and a half years, promising to launch consultations on it next month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
She was reinventing her life, rewriting her story.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
