rejiggers

verb

present tense third-person singular of rejigger
as in transforms

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rejiggers
  1. transforms
  2. alters
  3. modifies
  4. redesigns
  5. recasts
  6. reinvents
  7. revises
  8. reworks
Verb
  • The team demonstrated a chemical technique that takes a chaotic, unsorted cocktail of the world’s three most common plastics and transforms it into hydrogen fuel.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
  • His music often transforms a nonsense line or a passing thought into something profound.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
Definition of transforms
Verb
  • In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
  • But the loud, buzzing, mechanical presence often panics wildlife and alters natural behavior.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
Definition of alters
Verb
  • 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
Definition of modifies
Verb
  • At the conclusion of every regular season, provided the Knicks make the playoffs, the organization redesigns the corridor leading from the home locker room to the Madison Square Garden hardwood floors.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This approach redesigns enterprise workflows to embed value, operationalize governance and harden the AI lifecycle, ensuring reliability over time.
    — Ashwin Gaidhani, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of redesigns
Verb
  • 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
Definition of recasts
Verb
  • Pulitzer finalist Chang-rae Lee reinvents the coming-of-age novel, evoking Westchester County’s working-class neighborhoods and ritzier suburbs during the 1970s.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
  • For thousands of Nairobi commuters, choosing a matatu is choosing an aesthetic – a daily encounter with a culture that reinvents itself in motion.
    — Diego Menjíbar Reynés, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
Definition of reinvents
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of revises
Verb
  • Part of the Splash Jelly Drop collection, Tory Burch’s Mini Romy reworks one of the brand’s signature shapes into a bright aquatic blue that immediately calls to mind swimming pools and cloudless skies.
    — Sanika Achrekar, Glamour, 2 July 2026
  • Today, denim is getting a new influx of American talent thanks to brands like B Sides, a tiny label in upstate New York that takes selvage fabric and reworks it into new patchwork cuts.
    — Faran Krentcil, InStyle, 1 July 2026
Definition of reworks
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