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redraw

verb

Definition of redraw

as in to rewrite

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Recent Examples of redraw The Woodland School District is making plans to redraw boundaries for the city’s elementary, middle and high schools for the first time in more than 25 years in order to balance enrollment numbers between campuses. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Louisiana's state legislature rushed to redraw the district after the high court's decision. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 Louisiana’s legislature rushed to redraw the district after the high court’s decision, reshaping Fields’ district to cluster it around predominantly white communities in the Baton Rouge area and southern Louisiana. — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 And in the redistricting case, the judge agreed with Hoskins that voters cannot use the state’s referendum power to overturn the legislature’s power to redraw congressional maps. — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for redraw

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Competing with YouTube Still, Bajaria isn't interested in completely rewriting the rulebook.

— Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
From what students are taught to how schools receive money to support certain students, some long-standing practices are being rewritten.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of rewrite

Verb

An institution unable to revise imagery becomes a museum of assumptions.

— Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
The process has been slowed by lagging voter and political-party registrations, revised and extended deadlines and, now, another pending change to the country’s electoral law — developments that the international community is watching closely.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of revise

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The power plant features titanium headers and an Akrapovič silencer for the exhaust, and is allowed to breathe through a massive front intake that required reworking the steering head.

— Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
Apple has reworked its optical and electrical heart rate sensors, and now the watch measures your heart rate every five seconds throughout the day instead of only periodically, as the Series 11 does.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of rework

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Boy employees or those linked to Combs have been stalled, amended, or quietly abandoned.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
If their tax refund was inflated by claiming tax credits that don't apply to them, the taxpayer had to verify their ID first and then amend a return before any federal income tax refund could be issued.

— Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of amend

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Producers had been looking to rectify this, per our sources, since Ego Nwodim’s surprise exit in the fall of 2025.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
The museum closure is part of new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s attempts to rectify his predecessor, Viktor Orbán’s, control of state media and arts and culture entities.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of rectify

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Newsom also signed Senate Bill 186, which would strengthen the current tax incentive program by shortening the payout schedule for cash refunds and increasing the total refundable amount of unused tax credits.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Charging speeds also shortened this round by about five minutes compared with the iPhone 17 Pro series.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of shorten

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His promise to free Jair Bolsonaro is presented not as a rejection of the rule of law but as part of a broader pledge to reform institutions that, in his telling, have exceeded their proper authority.

— Andre Pagliarini, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
Her Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, did the same in 2004 after his popularity sank during a drive to reform Germany's welfare system.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

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