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redraw

verb

Definition of redraw

as in to rewrite

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Recent Examples of redraw The primary race comes months after the Florida legislature voted to redraw congressional lines that added Black voters to District 24 while nearby District 20, a historically Black voting district, saw an increase in white neighborhoods. — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026 Jeffries also traveled to Maryland to push Democratic lawmakers to redraw their congressional map, but state lawmakers rebuffed the effort. — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026 The rovers will elect a leader among themselves, assign their own tasks and redraw their plans as a group when one of them runs low on charge. — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026 Adding a station would split the north division in two, allowing CMPD to redraw boundaries to better align with staffing capacity and call volumes, according to the city council agenda. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 8 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for redraw

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The proposal comes as Congress continues to waver on the Protect College Sports Act, which has been rewritten repeatedly over the past six months.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Earlier this year, the Academy rewrote one of its oldest acting rules.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of rewrite

Verb

Election officials contend there isn’t enough time to revise their systems to comply with the new Postal Service directives.

— Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Election officials contend that there isn’t enough time to revise their systems to comply with the new Postal Service directives.

— Lindsay Whitehurst, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of revise

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Comcast and Charter have reworked pricing strategies and leaned on their growing mobile businesses as methods to retain, and potentially gain, more broadband customers in recent years.

— CJ Haddad,Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
The assortment has been reworked, albeit gently, to return to its roots.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of rework

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Unlike all of these, but very much like the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, which has been amended more than a hundred times, it was meant to be revised, updated, and improved.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
And others have not followed Texas in attempting to amend their bans.

— Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of amend

Verb

Phair felt she was atomized from the female coalitions of the ’90s, and that this co-bill might be a way to rectify that.

— Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
This revelatory new documentary (in theaters) seeks to rectify that, with the help of new interviews with the director himself, as well as star Linda Blair.

— Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of rectify

Verb

And although the Maroon reissue featured OG-style Nike Air branding, it wasn’t featured on the Sport Blue release just one year prior — an omission Nike will reportedly seek to correct on the forthcoming 2027 drop.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2026
Counsell was also unsure if correcting or altering mechanics could solve the issue.

— Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of correct

Verb

This can shorten the distance between a business requirement and an implementation, while leaving teams more time for design, integration and product decisions.

— Boris Kontsevoi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
That arrangement shortens the distance that signals need to travel between processing components.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of shorten

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But to enable ambitious research, the United States should take steps to reform the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

— Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
All the austerity options—cutting spending, reforming entitlements, or raising taxes are measures politicians are reluctant to embrace before an election.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

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