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 struck down in court, Hoskins will get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
Unless otherwise noted, all stats are tailored to redraft, half-PPR, 1-QB leagues.
—Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Ted Cruz has proposed that Texas extend the state's Republican advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives to a full Democratic wipeout if Gavin Newsom goes ahead with a proposal to redraft congressional maps in his state in response to a similar plan by Republicans in Texas.
—Robert Birsel
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 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
Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
Unless otherwise noted, all stats are tailored to redraft, half-PPR, 1-QB leagues.
—Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Ted Cruz has proposed that Texas extend the state's Republican advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives to a full Democratic wipeout if Gavin Newsom goes ahead with a proposal to redraft congressional maps in his state in response to a similar plan by Republicans in Texas.
—Robert Birsel
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 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
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.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The rapper eventually admitted to editing the photo.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Moreover, the June count was revised lower to a loss of 13,000, the first monthly decline since December 2020.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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The jobs report from July shattered the narrative that the economy of 2025 was strong, revising previous figures downward and revealing something close to an 80% collapse in hiring, even as inflation crept upwards and layoffs rolled.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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Season 1 exhausted the events of King's novel, even reworking material from its epilogue into the main action of the story, so now the team will chart a new path for these characters, which will involve expanding on elements from the novel.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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By reworking old sounds and fusing genres and beats, musicians created new genres of music through the technique of sampling.—
Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Redraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redraft. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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