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refiguring

verb

present participle of refigure
1
as in recasting

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2
as in recomputing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refiguring
  1. recasting
  2. computing
  3. revising
  4. figuring
  5. transforming
  6. counting
  7. refashioning
  8. numbering
Verb
  • While many rumors swirled following Grande and Bailey’s departures about recasting (Jessie Buckley?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Sony Pictures Television has suspended Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton and is recasting his role.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of recasting
Verb
  • Shares of Microsoft are up fractionally Wednesday, bucking the broader market declines and weakness in cloud-computing peers Amazon , Google and Oracle .
    — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In 2009, Salesforce made history as the first cloud computing company to achieve $1 billion in annual revenue.
    — Srinivas Velamoor, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of computing
Verb
  • The National Park Service is revising interpretations at its sites to offer an upbeat rendering of human bondage, if slavery is mentioned at all.
    — Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Its valuation can start to look expensive fast once the earnings start revising lower and macro conditions deteriorate.
    — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of revising
Verb
  • First, the law takes its time in responding to new technologies, figuring that new tools can be accommodated within existing ideas, rules, and doctrines.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • But figuring it out is an urgent concern here, given Beijing’s evident faith in AI as a magical solution to the country’s deepening economic and social problems, and as an essential tool in the pursuit of global dominance over the United States.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of figuring
Verb
  • Creating, importing, transforming beauty and goodness into a ritual that never stops.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • That evening, the artist performed one classic after another, donning her best stage outfits and transforming the concert hall into a veritable runway.
    — Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of transforming
Verb
  • In Kenya, this actuarial approach manifested as weeks spent in a Land Rover, counting herds of zebra with a handheld mechanical tally counter in my right hand and binoculars in my left.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Sean John Combs, as of this writing, is inmate number 37452-054 and counting down the days of his sentence at Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of counting
Verb
  • Kingsoft Cloud is refashioning itself into an artificial intelligence cloud player — a move that should drive its shares higher, according to Morgan Stanley.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • But weathering the tensions and refashioning the alliance for the future will require more than billion-dollar deals and verbal diplomacy.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of refashioning
Verb
  • 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
  • The groups, with members numbering in the dozens, have attempted to cross from Israel to Syria every few days in recent weeks.
    — Natalie Melzer, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Definition of numbering
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“Refiguring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refiguring. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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