as in to summarize
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Recent Examples of redescribe
Her own project is not to erase those incisions—or even, as a child might hope, to heal them—but to retrace and redescribe them.
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Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
The exquisite remains allowed scientists to redescribe the species since Hallucigenia’s important head and mouth features were observable.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2015
Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
The exquisite remains allowed scientists to redescribe the species since Hallucigenia’s important head and mouth features were observable.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redescribe
Verb
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Jeff Hafley’s an excellent communicator Hafley needs 30 seconds to summarize things that would have taken Mike McDaniel three minutes.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
9 June 2026
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The slow pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be counted.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 June 2026
Verb
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Altair and four other stars form a large vertical diamond that outlines the eagle’s wingspan.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
7 June 2026
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Four years later, in April 2025, CATL unveiled its second-generation Naxtra sodium-ion battery and outlined plans to deploy the technology across a wide range of applications, including passenger and commercial vehicles, battery-swapping networks, and stationary energy storage systems.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 June 2026
Verb
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As the mission suggests, this new press is nothing if not tenacious.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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This suggests that the act of concentrating mattered more than what students were concentrating on.—
Supreet Kaur,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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“Redescribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redescribe. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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