REDREW Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

redrew

verb

past tense of redraw

as in rewrote

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Minnesota’s legislature rewrote the law to close the loophole that same year.

— Ilana Turko, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026
Lisa Lisa rewrote natural, nude nail laws on the carpet, upgrading the plain technique with curved, talon tips.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

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And Congress has yet to pass a new farm bill — a measure that is intended to be revised about every five years to set agriculture policy but has been extended for the last three years.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Those projections were revised down (and revised down again) after a deluge of bad buzz.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

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For fall 2026, the focus is on four core jackets, the Karakorum, Verone, Himalaya and Tibb, each reworked with new materials, proportions and details.

— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Chinese leaders under Deng were able to kickstart China’s era of rapid growth through rural reforms that completely reworked Maoist economic orthodoxy.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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An earlier version of this story was corrected to describe the suspect as the former head of foreign, not domestic, intelligence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
But many of Lamont’s fellow Democrats say the fiscally moderate governor has over-corrected, saving too aggressively, to the detriment of health care, education, social services and other core programs.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

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Questions and answers have been shortened for brevity and focus.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Her campaign has been relatively free of major bumps since an appeals court in July cleared her path for a fourth run at the presidency, with a ruling that shortened a ban on seeking public office handed down to Le Pen for embezzling public funds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

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