as in to edit
to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating
if you redraft that paper and include more recent data, I think we could publish it
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Recent Examples of redraft
If ballot language is challenged in court, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins will now get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2025
My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, China’s retaliatory tariffs are set to make components American drone makers rely on even more expensive; plans to redraft a new export system are already halting shipments of magnets, which are essential for drone motors.
—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The Republicans cited other federal criminal conspiracy and money laundering laws and asked the department to rescind or redraft the memo.
—Samantha Putterman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Aug. 2024
The state lawyers filed a 50-page brief at the 1st District Court of Appeal contending that Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper did not have the authority to order the panel, known as the Financial Impact Estimating Conference, to redraft the statement.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2024
The league redrafts its teams each week with the top four point scorers serving as captains.
—Doug Feinberg, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
In 2020, Australia moved to redraft its defamation laws after a high court ruling found that publishers using social media platforms like Facebook should be held liable for defamatory third-party comments on their pages, CNBC reported in 2021.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2023
The Biden administration had to redraft the environmental reviews for that project after environmental groups won a lawsuit challenging them.
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2025
My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, China’s retaliatory tariffs are set to make components American drone makers rely on even more expensive; plans to redraft a new export system are already halting shipments of magnets, which are essential for drone motors.
—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The Republicans cited other federal criminal conspiracy and money laundering laws and asked the department to rescind or redraft the memo.
—Samantha Putterman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Aug. 2024
The state lawyers filed a 50-page brief at the 1st District Court of Appeal contending that Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper did not have the authority to order the panel, known as the Financial Impact Estimating Conference, to redraft the statement.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2024
The league redrafts its teams each week with the top four point scorers serving as captains.
—Doug Feinberg, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
In 2020, Australia moved to redraft its defamation laws after a high court ruling found that publishers using social media platforms like Facebook should be held liable for defamatory third-party comments on their pages, CNBC reported in 2021.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2023
The Biden administration had to redraft the environmental reviews for that project after environmental groups won a lawsuit challenging them.
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redraft
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
17 May 2025
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Ironically, users spend significant time editing these AI outputs, essentially becoming engineers trying to coax a machine into sounding real.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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The first demonstration was held in September 2024, and information gained from that was used to revise and expand on the demonstration held Wednesday morning.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2025
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The Trump administration is greasing the wheels on the transition to autonomous driving by relaxing and revising federal regulations, though risks to the public remain.—
Emily Forlini,
PC Magazine,
14 May 2025
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Seven of New Haven’s 20 varsity programs played in NCAA Tournaments this year, including football, which will need a couple of seasons to rework its schedules before joining the NEC.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
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Archetypal masculine garments were reworked into a sensual personalized silhouette.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
8 May 2025
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“Redraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redraft. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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