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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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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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The story was previously adapted into a 2011 film before being reworked as a musical with music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Company, a book by Rick Elice and directed by Jessica Stone.

— Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
McKinsey found that around 80% of fintechs were already reworking their operating models by the time the correction set in, most of them citing profitability and a sustainable cost structure as the reason.

— Serhii Zakharov, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of rework

Verb

The order was later amended to demand that two dozen videos believed to have been posted by Bourne be removed from several platforms, the Davis newspaper reported.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
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

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

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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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are calling for legislation to reform healthcare in the state next year.

— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
Senators elected in November will be part of the class that either lets Social Security's trust fund run dry or reform the program, analysts noted.

— Medora Lee, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

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