as in to modify
to make different in some way
once he recast the question in different terms, I understood what he was asking
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Recent Examples of recast
This past week, Trump tried to recast the very nature of crime.
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Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
The role Yulin was supposed to play, Linus, will likely be recast.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 June 2025
Consequently, local police have been recast as front-line warriors.
—Abigail R. Hall, Twin Cities, 11 June 2025
Now, Grosvenor Square is being recast for a post-American age.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 June 2025
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Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
The role Yulin was supposed to play, Linus, will likely be recast.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 June 2025
Consequently, local police have been recast as front-line warriors.
—Abigail R. Hall, Twin Cities, 11 June 2025
Now, Grosvenor Square is being recast for a post-American age.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recast
Verb
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If a married filing joint taxpayers modified AGI exceeds $600,000, the SALT cap would be $10,000.—
Lynn Mucenski Keck,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Most humanoid robots are expensive, hard to modify, and difficult to repair.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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The petals of flowers will change depending on how basic or acidic the soil is.—
Dr. Nick Goltz,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2025
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That’s changed in the year and a half since: Lawson, now 21, has interviews lined up to be a train conductor, a job that starts out with an $80,000 annual salary and could open the door for other higher-earning positions in the years to come.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
5 July 2025
Verb
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The 12,000-square-foot church was constructed in the early 1900s and remodeled by Denver architect William Muchow, Goldblatt said.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
4 July 2025
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The Starbucks in Concourse B closed last week and will be remodeled into a Dunkin', with an opening date planned for later this summer.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Verb
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Unemployment had altered her idea of what qualified as a life.—
Nora Lange,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
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These alter the taste of your coffee and can even cause your machine to break down.—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
10 July 2025
Verb
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Pivoting quickly to rework a quality control process using a traditional, rigid software solution is almost impossible.—
Ed Jennings,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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In turn, that could trigger a homeowner to purposefully rework the landscape of their property so as to discourage coyotes from using it.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
Verb
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Advertisement Taken together, these developments would shift the balance of power in the populists’ favor, transforming how the E.U. defines its values and its interests.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
11 July 2025
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The Democratic minority leader sees a path for his party to regain majorities in Congress — even the Senate — due to its unified opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill, which is set to transform the US economy over the next few years.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
11 July 2025
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“Recast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recast. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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