REWRITES Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

rewrites

verb

present tense third-person singular of rewrite

as in amends

to write (something) again especially in a different way in order to improve it or to include new information The teacher asked him to rewrite the essay. I had to rewrite the computer program.

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Recent Examples of rewrites The Neo rewrites the budget-laptop playbook, with a higher-end build, a more advanced screen, longer battery life, and faster speeds than many laptops in its price range. — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026 Sensors track flow, signals and microdelays; the agent continuously rewrites signal timing, lane usage and routing incentives in real time. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Energy markets don’t stop at state lines, so when one state rewrites the rules for major producers, every state feels it at the pump and on the power bill. — Yaël Ossowski, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026 Every generation eventually rewrites George Washington, which tells you less about Washington than about the country doing the rewriting. — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2026 Seeing women throw shoulders in the paint, pick up yellow cards and soon, carve up the ice, fundamentally rewrites the mythology of sports for everyone — male, female and everyone in between in the Bay. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 May 2026 The decision, issued at a FIFA Council meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, rewrites a long-standing rule that required FIFA to recognize a national team through the country’s own soccer federation. — Max Feliu, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026 There’s a moment when Cee Cee, auditioning for a big-shot New York composer, rewrites his song to bring out the girl power. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026 The narrative rewrites itself almost overnight. — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026

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The measure amends the city's general plan and land use framework to add a citywide ban on data centers, according to city officials.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 4 June 2026
The legislation amends the Brown Act to diversify and increase public engagement in meetings of local legislative bodies.

— Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026

Definition of amends

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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

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Snooz reworks that moment so the treat aligns with the goal of actually falling asleep afterward.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 17, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
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

Definition of reworks

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Instead of retraining an entire AI model, which can be extremely expensive, the system improves performance during generation.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
As health alerts have been issued amid the wildfire smoke in New York and New Jersey, FIFA is not concerned about the impact of poor air quality on the World Cup final as the weather forecast improves, according to unnamed sources who spoke to ESPN.

— Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of improves

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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

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