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refigures

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present tense third-person singular of refigure

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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

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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

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The shop's Lightcamp package quickly transforms the PV5 Passenger van into a smart mini-camper with indoor/outdoor kitchen and sleeping space for four people.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
What begins as a history play transforms into a sharp-eyed satire about the cost of assimilation in a society where money, power and white privilege remain stubbornly intertwined.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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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

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This layout alters how a power plant operates over its life cycle.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
That ocean warming alters where thunderstorm activity concentrates near the equator, which in turn shifts the position of the jet stream — the fast-moving river of air that steers storms across North America.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Definition of alters

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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

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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
One area where Goldman explicitly revises its prior pessimism is jobs — though not in the direction AI boosters would prefer.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026

Definition of revises

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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

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