rejiggering

verb

present participle of rejigger
as in redesigning

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rejiggering
  1. redesigning
  2. reworking
  3. recasting
  4. transforming
  5. modifying
  6. altering
  7. remodeling
  8. revising
Verb
  • In practice, that mindset has meant redesigning incentive models, reallocating budget and building the measurement infrastructure needed to demonstrate commercial impact.
    — Rosie Guest, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Future satellites could replace onboard processors with newer chips from different suppliers without redesigning the entire spacecraft.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of redesigning
Verb
  • Elena Bonvicini founded the brand 10 years ago as a high schooler reworking vintage Levi’s into new garments.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Collins will help create a more adaptable avionics setup, allowing the Army to introduce new capabilities without repeatedly reworking the aircraft’s core systems.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of reworking
Verb
  • The surfaces continue to change as the button keeps on getting pushed, placing and recasting Diana, Lalo and The King in new contexts, each vaguely modelled on different film genres and with varying levels of playful artifice.
    — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
  • According to Deadline, Henry grew older and developed some athletic skills that required recasting.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of recasting
Verb
  • New York — Artificial intelligence is a game-changing technology that’s already transforming how the world lives and works.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Playing a key role in that push is Qatar’s Ooredoo Group, which has been steadily transforming itself from a traditional telco into a digital infrastructure provider over the last three years.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of transforming
Verb
  • Disney says no benefits are being cut because the unit organized in 2024 and the talks are setting first-contract terms rather than modifying an existing agreement.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • This matters because nephrology as a specialty has had very few genuinely disease-modifying options for diabetic kidney disease.
    — Jesse M. Pines, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of modifying
Verb
  • Former boxer Prichard Colón has died at age 33, 11 years after sustaining life-altering blows to the head during the only defeat of his professional career.
    — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • She’s tasked with apprehending The Puppet Master (Iemasa Kayumi), a hacker who appears to be tapping directly into these networked minds and altering memories.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of altering
Verb
  • Most give me six answers, with goals like building a business, training for a marathon, starting a fund or remodeling a house.
    — Daniel Ramsey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Johnson had the property built in 2004, remodeling it in 2014, per WWD.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of remodeling
Verb
  • Prosecutors this week unveiled a new indictment against the man accused of igniting last year’s deadly fire in the Palisades, nixing one of the three original charges and revising the other two after a mistrial in federal court this summer.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • When medications are unavailable because of shortages or become unaffordable because of coverage changes, practices are left managing patient frustration, identifying alternatives, and revising treatment plans.
    — Jeffrey Millstein, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of revising
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