rearranges

verb

present tense third-person singular of rearrange
as in disposes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rearranges
  1. disposes
  2. orients
  3. situates
  4. shifts
  5. moves
  6. locates
  7. puts
  8. establishes
Verb
  • The assessor proposes; the Board disposes.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026
  • Disney, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, disposes of the data gained from its facial recognition technology within 30 days unless its necessary for legal or fraud prevention purposes, according to its privacy policy.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
Definition of disposes
Verb
  • With a body thrashed by occupational hazards, Hsu, who is forty-four, orients his life nowadays around running Sci-Fi Fantasy, his skate company, and roaming the city to take pictures.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Boyd’s insight was that whoever observes and orients better gets inside their opponent’s decision cycle and dictates the fight.
    — Nnamdi Iregbulem, Fortune, 29 July 2026
Definition of orients
Verb
  • This situates it alongside the North Atlantic ocean that's populated with a variety of different kinds of whales.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Without diminishing that aspect of music, Musical Bodies rightly situates as much meaning in the objects themselves.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of situates
Verb
  • Try meeting their needs first and see if their behavior shifts.
    — Juli Fraga, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Translation is a mutation of language, but not direct replication; something happens in the process that shifts the direction of the ideas.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of shifts
Verb
  • Colorado moves way up to one spot ahead of Georgia Tech after blocking the final field goal for the road win over the Yellow Jackets.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Buoyed by her leadership of the multi-billion-dollar expansion project last decade, Espino moves up from deputy administrator to take full command of the canal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of moves
Verb
  • If most people tend to think of the art as the visual or sonic manifestation one encounters, Protocol Art locates the art not in its manifestations but in the work that generates them.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The medical model locates disability inside the individual, a deficit to be cured, corrected or endured until the person can function in a world built without them.
    — Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of locates
Verb
  • Having receiver Cam Coleman opposite Ryan Wingo puts opposing secondaries between a rock and a hard place, because double-teaming one can result in the other going off.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • That puts the network front and center, and it must be engineered as a first-class part of the architecture, rather than ordered last.
    — Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of puts
Verb
  • And organizations need to build an operational model that establishes clear lanes for AI to drive work and guardrails to prevent it from going off course.
    — Jason Kurtz, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Strong performance from a single router establishes one part of the picture, while the network tests show how the system performs when additional routing stages are involved.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of establishes
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“Rearranges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rearranges. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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