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as in to recast
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Recent Examples of refigure
Muldrow does what Black artists have always done uniquely well — signify upon, revise and refigure a theme, expanding an existing form through a clever new one.
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New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
That has affected local organizations including the Houston Choral Society who has been forced to refigure their presentation of music for the safety of both their performers and patrons.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2020
On the flip side, the onus is on opponents to refigure the Spurs out, a task that continues with today’s game against rookie star Ja Morant and the eighth-place Memphis Grizzlies.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
The provision was sought by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to help businesses avoid having to refigure withholdings for thousands of employees who have been working remotely for weeks to avoid spreading the deadly coronavirus.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
The film works to refigure the identity of the assassination buff, registering his or her inquest as essentially futile.
—Art Simon, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
That has affected local organizations including the Houston Choral Society who has been forced to refigure their presentation of music for the safety of both their performers and patrons.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2020
On the flip side, the onus is on opponents to refigure the Spurs out, a task that continues with today’s game against rookie star Ja Morant and the eighth-place Memphis Grizzlies.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
The provision was sought by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to help businesses avoid having to refigure withholdings for thousands of employees who have been working remotely for weeks to avoid spreading the deadly coronavirus.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
The film works to refigure the identity of the assassination buff, registering his or her inquest as essentially futile.
—Art Simon, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refigure
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Maduro appears determined to recast the U.S. bounty on his capture as a rallying cry rather than a threat.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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The actor played Andre, a supe with powers to control metal and one of the key characters of Gen V season 1, but producers announced his role wouldn’t be recast.—
Zoe Kaplan,
People.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Reducing the size of a fund also means recomputing management fees, and therefore handing money back to limited partners.—
BYJessica Mathews,
Fortune,
31 July 2023
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Clearing the entire browsing history will cause Chrome to recompute the FLoC ID.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
12 June 2021
Verb
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The company also updated its guidance, revising its adjusted EBITDA range upwards by $5 million on the back and front ends.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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The data are also revised because of those seasonal adjustments.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Aug. 2025
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This reduces decision fatigue for developers, keeps performance consistent, and allows the model to allocate computing resources dynamically, going deep when a problem requires it, or staying lightweight for simpler queries.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Tesla's focus on Dojo and another computing cluster called Cortex were meant to improve the company's advanced driver assistance systems, and to enable Musk to finally deliver on his promise to turn existing Teslas into robotaxis.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
7 Aug. 2025
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Then there is the matter of changing the art, itself, and the possibility that improving its safety could alter the way the piece is intended to appear and operate.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
15 Aug. 2025
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The aircraft's configuration was altered but seating charts were not updated.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Already, 20 to 30 of Florida’s endangered panthers, which number roughly 200 adults, are killed by cars each year.—
Elise Bennett,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Aug. 2025
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But in today’s AI clusters — where GPUs number in the thousands and training runs can span weeks — traditional wiring starts to look less like infrastructure and more like a bottleneck.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Over years of statements, social-media posts, and interviews, however, a pattern has emerged: Musk sees Mars not merely as a lifeboat but as a laboratory—an opportunity to reengineer humanity.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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Politicians in both big political parties have been trying to reengineer the U.S. economy to boost manufacturing.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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The film, about a Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China, slowly transforms into a love story between two outsiders.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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After being released from his first WWE contract, McIntyre had to completely reinvent himself on the independent circuit, transforming his body and his character to earn a second chance.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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