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as in modifies
to make different in some way
the sculptor reworked the clay into another shape
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as in edits
to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating
the magazine will publish your poem if you rework it so that it's a little shorter
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Recent Examples of reworks
To protect from equally discomforting interior water, Heimplanet reworks the ventilation system to boost airflow, even in heavy rain and wind conditions.
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New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
Harris’ team works and reworks an interim message for crowds at Howard University, then pulls her out of the speaking engagement altogether as the numbers sour.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
Harris’ team works and reworks an interim message for crowds at Howard University, then pulls her out of the speaking engagement altogether as the numbers sour.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reworks
Verb
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The State Department regularly updates and modifies travel advisories based on current events, geopolitical issues, and analysis of overall threat risks.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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Arriving in the summer of 2026, the Mustang RTR arose from three years of work by Ford engineers and Gittin’s RTR Vehicles, which modifies vehicles’ performance and looks.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Roberts hopes that his lineup edits lead to some more offense in what has been an otherwise mediocre display in the Dodgers' pair of World Series losses.—
Gabe Smallson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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Can fan edits drive engagement offline?—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The research explains that the breast remodels itself to prepare for nursing — and then when nursing is over, remodels itself again through a process called involution.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Executions are on hold in Idaho as the state prison system remodels its execution chamber in the transition from lethal injection to a firing squad as the lead method.—
Kevin Fixler
September 5,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Sep. 2025
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DaCosta both reveals and revises the story’s tragic dimension up front, opening with Hedda being questioned by the police about events that led to a certain consequential gunshot.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Physicists have observed that a proton’s excited states, or resonances, remain influential even when probed at very high energies, a finding that revises previous expectations about the building blocks of matter.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This particular trip to Paris had the exciting fortune (and, noting for legal purposes, pure coincidence) of concurring with a heist at the Louvre—who says the city never changes?—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
11 Nov. 2025
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Rather, the Total Portfolio Approach changes how managers make investment decisions.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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Howard, also a mom of three, agrees that exhaustion alters decision-making.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
4 Nov. 2025
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Kidney disease alters your nutritional needs and may cause nutrient depletion.—
Trang Tran,
Verywell Health,
29 Oct. 2025
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Seehorn plays Carol Sturka, a misanthropic romance author whose latest book tour concludes with an apocalyptic event that fully transforms her world and the world at large in the span of one evening.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Alarcón plays a woman who transforms herself, aligning with nature and changing her reality when menopause converges with a world in destruction.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Reworks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reworks. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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