Thesaurus results for REFIGURE

refigure

verb

Definition of refigure

as in to recast

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as in to recompute

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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. — 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

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Collected crayons eventually will be brought to The Crayon Initiative to be recast into new crayons sent to children in hospitals across the country.

— Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
The surfaces continue to change as the button keeps on getting pushed, placing and recasting Diana, Lalo and The King in new contexts, each vaguely modelled on different film genres and with varying levels of playful artifice.

— Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of recast

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World models allow systems to build a task specific representation of reality, allowing systems to reason over what matters instead of recomputing understanding from scratch at every step.

— Abhas Ricky, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
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

Definition of recompute

Verb

When medications are unavailable because of shortages or become unaffordable because of coverage changes, practices are left managing patient frustration, identifying alternatives, and revising treatment plans.

— Jeffrey Millstein, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026
The committee later revised its plans for Air Base, instead moving the entire student body to the slightly bigger Mandarin Lakes campus.

— Austin Horn August 11, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of revise

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Nvidia would supply computing hardware through the chip arrangement instead of directly funding construction.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Because if the Protocol upends the REC market with precisely imprecise requirements almost no one is ready to meet, investors will be able to compute the hit to companies’ bottom line.

— Mike Feibus, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of compute

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Former boxer Prichard Colón has died at age 33, 11 years after sustaining life-altering blows to the head during the only defeat of his professional career.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
She’s tasked with apprehending The Puppet Master (Iemasa Kayumi), a hacker who appears to be tapping directly into these networked minds and altering memories.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of alter

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Using your phone less The days of switching between apps to complete a task could be numbered.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Teen takeovers are when large groups of teenagers, sometimes numbering in the thousands, are drawn to specific areas of a city mostly through social media posts, and usually result in chaos and arrests, authorities said.

— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

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That’s because, as aggressively as SaaS providers are embedding AI agents and other forms of AI into their products, these capabilities bring new realities that are prompting providers to reengineer their pricing models.

— Steve Karp, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
The pool, which was first installed in 1923, was previously renovated in 2012 to reengineer its circulation and filtration system, though the shallow water feature has been notoriously difficult to keep clean.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026

Definition of reengineer

Verb

The car is designed to transform throughout the show, serving not only as a car but also as a bed and a bench as the story moves between locations.

— Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Bobby’s color palette is bizarre, and her idea of a sash that transforms into a shawl scarf is really cool but executed poorly.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2026

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