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Recent Examples of rejigger
While the market remains as AI obsessed as ever, the focus has shifted to how the technology might supplant the need for some workers, threaten companies and business models, and rejigger entire industries.
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Eric J Weiner, Bloomberg, 5 Mar. 2026
Instead the agency will rejigger its planned Artemis III mission to test in-orbit capabilities such as using the astronauts’ space suits in microgravity and rendezvousing with at least one of the spacecraft that NASA hopes to use as a lunar lander.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
The Administration would surely try to rejigger the levies using different legal authorities, which create another round of anxiety and uncertainty for businesses, particularly small businesses.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The supply side must also be considered, as businesses may rejigger their supply chains based on their perception of the tariffs’ future impact, leading to changes in pricing.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 25 Nov. 2025
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Eric J Weiner, Bloomberg, 5 Mar. 2026
Instead the agency will rejigger its planned Artemis III mission to test in-orbit capabilities such as using the astronauts’ space suits in microgravity and rendezvousing with at least one of the spacecraft that NASA hopes to use as a lunar lander.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
The Administration would surely try to rejigger the levies using different legal authorities, which create another round of anxiety and uncertainty for businesses, particularly small businesses.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The supply side must also be considered, as businesses may rejigger their supply chains based on their perception of the tariffs’ future impact, leading to changes in pricing.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rejigger
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Not to be redistributed, copied, or modified in any way.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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The interest rate may be seen as a stand-in for immutable deep parameters like people’s rate of time preference, or as a price set within the financial system, which can be modified to achieve our collective goals.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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Now, the qualifying procedure — which was already slightly altered from previous years — is getting altered again.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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The dermatology and wellness center blends functional and aesthetic medicine to offer treatments designed to enhance natural features rather than dramatically alter them.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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The Commanders revised their defense and will now operate in Jones’ system, which could look quite similar to Brian Flores’ defense with the Minnesota Vikings.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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That means updating our building codes to require more fire-resistant materials; revising our land-use policies to minimize building in predictably flammable areas at the edge of wildlands; and disincentivizing oil companies from further exacerbating climate change.—
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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Wastewater is also reused for irrigation, and the hotel has also started recycling vegetable oils with an organization that transforms the waste into biodiesel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 May 2026
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Technology, desire and collapse Across the Giardini, Maja Malou Lyse’s DIS, Things to Come (2026) transforms the Danish Pavilion into an immersive environment where digital imagery and physical presence collapse into one another.—
Andrew S. Jacobson,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2026
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According to Locus, Array reduces reliance on manual labor by up to 90 percent, maintains consistent throughput under changing market and employment conditions and enables operations to scale and adapt without redesigning infrastructure.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
12 May 2026
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Lastly, Google has redesigned its emoji yet again.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 May 2026
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Absentee voting began in March, and while votes in most races will still count, ballots cast in the affected congressional districts will be voided and recast under the new election schedule.—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
12 May 2026
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The new name, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, aims to recast the disorder as a complex hormonal imbalance that affects metabolism as well as reproduction.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
12 May 2026
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Perhaps, but Alonso’s attentive gaze reworks the meaning of excitement such that a banal exchange with the nearby farmhand, and a drive into the nearby village, provide minor thrills — that is, if you’re properly settled onto Alonso’s serenely sluggish wavelength.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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Leading the charge this season are statement midi skirts, reimagined suiting separates and the takeover of glove pumps, all reworked with a fresh twist that feels more personal than corporate.—
Lauren Fisher,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
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Without her lenses, the classroom was a soft, velutinous world full of indefinite objects, every landmark reinvented.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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America’s most important innovation has never been a single technology but the capacity to reinvent the institutions of innovation themselves.—
David H. Hsu,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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“Rejigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rejigger. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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