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
  • Director Ivan Uryvskyi is candid about how the play recasts the ancient poem’s themes of return and those trapped in exile and captivity.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The new edition recasts all 10 songs from the original through a more intimate lens, with Carlile returning to Long Pond Studio in upstate New York to co-produce four tracks with the National’s Aaron Dessner.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of recasts
Verb
  • These protests attracted the interest of the Council of Europe, the international organisation set up in 1949 to uphold human rights and the rule of law in Europe which now numbers 46 members, including the United Kingdom.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Launched in 1973 in Scotts Valley, the Erik’s empire now numbers 29 restaurants and stretches from the Monterey Peninsula to Sacramento County.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of numbers
Verb
  • Transform ashes into memorial stones Solidification is a newer alternative to traditional cremation that transforms a beloved pet’s remains into ash memorial stones.
    — Yvonne Villasenor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • And as Aroonpheng spins his narrative into a long, misshapen web, the drama involving Yak vanishes behind a cloud of fog and transforms into the film’s most baffling yet bracing detour.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 9 Sep. 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
  • Coincidentally, most general rifle seasons start now, and hunting pressure drastically alters elk behavior.
    — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Artificial intelligence alters the way awareness comes into play.
    — Jon Michail, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of alters
Verb
  • Moreover, revisions to the way the Bureau of Economic Analysis computes the personal consumption expenditures price index are expected to take inflation readings issued earlier this year lower.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of computes
Verb
  • Effective July 29, Maine significantly revises its workplace substance use testing framework.
    — Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of revises
Verb
  • An agent that calls the wrong API or modifies the wrong record creates consequences a hallucinated sentence simply cannot.
    — Hemant Kashyap, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • So the team fed AlphaFold versions of a target DNA sequence, along with a guide RNA, the Cas9 sequence, and an enzyme that chemically modifies bases and can stick to Cas9.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026
Definition of modifies
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