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rewrite

verb

Definition of rewritenext
as in to amend
to write (something) again especially in a different way in order to improve it or to include new information The teacher asked him to rewrite the essay. I had to rewrite the computer program.

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Recent Examples of rewrite With the recommendation to pause the boundary work, the district is now going back to the drawing board to rewrite a bond that doesn’t include boundary changes or immediate facility closures. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 Rather than rewriting the text, the company uses pauses, interaction and natural delivery to preserve its rhythm while making the language accessible. — Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026 Business knowledge can change without redesigning a skill, individual skills can be evaluated independently and orchestration problems can be investigated without rewriting every underlying capability. — Ambarish Majumdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The lawsuit, filed Monday morning in federal court in New York, argued that the administration exceeded its authority by attempting to rewrite more than 140 years of immigration law. — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rewrite
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rewrite
  1. amend
  2. revise
  3. improve
  4. modify
  5. rework
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  • Boy employees or those linked to Combs have been stalled, amended, or quietly abandoned.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • If their tax refund was inflated by claiming tax credits that don't apply to them, the taxpayer had to verify their ID first and then amend a return before any federal income tax refund could be issued.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of amend
Verb
  • An institution unable to revise imagery becomes a museum of assumptions.
    — Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The process has been slowed by lagging voter and political-party registrations, revised and extended deadlines and, now, another pending change to the country’s electoral law — developments that the international community is watching closely.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of revise
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  • Computer simulations indicate that one of the geometries studied by the team could improve NMR sensitivity and accuracy by roughly an order of magnitude.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The agreement bucks the utility’s typical process of building, operating and sometimes improving power plants and other infrastructure, such as transmission lines, and then collecting that money from customers in their monthly electricity bills.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of improve
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  • Rather than excavating and extensively modifying hundreds of unique Minuteman-era facilities, the Air Force is developing a standardized, modular construction approach for the new silos.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Mercedes also modified the truck with single rear tires and expedition equipment.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of modify
Verb
  • The power plant features titanium headers and an Akrapovič silencer for the exhaust, and is allowed to breathe through a massive front intake that required reworking the steering head.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Apple has reworked its optical and electrical heart rate sensors, and now the watch measures your heart rate every five seconds throughout the day instead of only periodically, as the Series 11 does.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
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“Rewrite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rewrite. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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