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
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Some early testers have used Skills to quickly enter prompts to calculate protein macros in a recipe, generate side-by-side comparisons across multiple tabs while shopping, and summarize lengthy documents, Google adds.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
15 Apr. 2026
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Instead of asking students to define terms or summarize a concept when Wikipedia is sitting right there, the advice was to give them higher-level tasks—to evaluate different solutions to a problem or reflect on how that concept has come up in their own lives.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
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How those two stars outline a dog is anybody’s guess.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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In the 1960s, Ohio’s governor, James Rhodes, outlined his vision of establishing a college within 30 miles of every resident and set about building regional campuses of large public universities across the state.—
Jeffrey Selingo,
The Atlantic,
12 Apr. 2026
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Allen has a general noise ordinance, but nothing specific to pickleball, which is what Kacines suggests.—
Erin Jones,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Halperin suggests doing a tick check at the end of the day.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Redescribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redescribe. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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