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The director decided to recast the movie with unknowns.
When she quit the movie, I was recast in the leading role.
The director recast some of the actors in the play.
You should recast the last sentence in your essay to make it clearer.
He recast his political image to fit the times.
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One assumption of the new wave of apologias for liberalism is that, to keep attracting adherents, the stagnating ideology must be recast as a spiritual enterprise, or a personal therapy, or a grand and invigorating project.
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Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Within the first week of shooting, Nash had to recast the actor playing Johnny after the original performer had an unexpected medical issue.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
Led by a fiercely right-wing counter-movement, Floyd's image was recast from victim to a boogeyman embodying the social ills some associate with America's cities.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
The longtime holiday staple returned last year after several years off, refreshed and revised and recast by its original director/adaptor Michael Wilson.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2024
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Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Within the first week of shooting, Nash had to recast the actor playing Johnny after the original performer had an unexpected medical issue.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
Led by a fiercely right-wing counter-movement, Floyd's image was recast from victim to a boogeyman embodying the social ills some associate with America's cities.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
The longtime holiday staple returned last year after several years off, refreshed and revised and recast by its original director/adaptor Michael Wilson.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2024
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re·cast
(ˈ)rē-ˈkast 
recast; recasting
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