reworking

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By the end of the fittings, Hallyday had recut and resewn all three pieces several times, adjusting shades of white, reworking the skirt’s fabrics and refining the jacket’s cut, which was her biggest challenge.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

The new number one is a duet reworking of a track of the same name taken from Fender's third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

He kept reworking the confrontation scene between Salieri and Mozart, the play’s climactic moment in which irony once again gets the better of tragic recognition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

China, meanwhile, has been subtly reworking its global export engine through a sharp devaluation of its yuan against the euro, which has helped it offset the impact of tariffs on U.S.-bound goods.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

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