refigures

verb

present tense third-person singular of refigure
1
as in recasts

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as in recomputes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refigures
  1. recasts
  2. numbers
  3. transforms
  4. enumerates
  5. alters
  6. computes
  7. revises
  8. modifies
Verb
  • Sarnoski’s version likewise recasts the female character as a benevolent force, and is largely stripped of romance — though permits itself a streak of sentimentality in a subplot concerning the grizzled outlaw’s gentle bond with a young girl.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • The word — so often a diabolical four-letter dismissal — recasts precision as excess, ambition as ego, obsession as spectacle.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of recasts
Verb
  • The collection already numbers over 3,000 titles, and donations keep arriving.
    — Derek James, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • For the country’s Jewish population, which numbers just 100, the spate of anti-Israel measures adopted by the former government contributed to a growing sense of isolation in the country.
    — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026
Definition of numbers
Verb
  • The team demonstrated a chemical technique that takes a chaotic, unsorted cocktail of the world’s three most common plastics and transforms it into hydrogen fuel.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
  • His music often transforms a nonsense line or a passing thought into something profound.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
Definition of transforms
Verb
  • Adler’s version, as elegant and lyrical as Fisher’s, enumerates ways to use every last scrap, bone, and core—and introduced her as a writer who made art out of the marginal.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Zuckerberg enumerates one of these very specifically, and in my view, this is one of the biggest contributions of this essay.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Definition of enumerates
Verb
  • In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
  • But the loud, buzzing, mechanical presence often panics wildlife and alters natural behavior.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
Definition of alters
Verb
  • Nature computes, and one result is the code through which matter becomes a living, adaptive, self-organizing form.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The transaction processing at your checkout is fully automated, operating within AI systems that handle millions of payments simultaneously, and computes a risk score based on dozens of features extracted from that single moment.
    — Pragati Awasthi, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
Definition of computes
Verb
  • Golden Gate revises the design system to reduce the distractions that should never have been present in the first place.
    — Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 13 July 2026
  • Pressing for clearer answers For months, frustration among stakeholders has centered on numbers that keep shifting as the district revises its budget projections.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of revises
Verb
  • For example, Texas angler Dustin Grice modifies his spinnerbaits by adding chartreuse and white willow-leaf blades with a matching chartreuse/white skirt.
    — David A. Brown, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • The company’s claim is that MST modifies the mechanical stress state of the silicon surface in a way that discourages dislocation nucleation and propagation during the subsequent GaN growth steps.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
Definition of modifies
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