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as in to recast
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Recent Examples of refigure
Muldrow does what Black artists have always done uniquely well — signify upon, revise and refigure a theme, expanding an existing form through a clever new one.
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New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
That has affected local organizations including the Houston Choral Society who has been forced to refigure their presentation of music for the safety of both their performers and patrons.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2020
On the flip side, the onus is on opponents to refigure the Spurs out, a task that continues with today’s game against rookie star Ja Morant and the eighth-place Memphis Grizzlies.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
The provision was sought by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to help businesses avoid having to refigure withholdings for thousands of employees who have been working remotely for weeks to avoid spreading the deadly coronavirus.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
The film works to refigure the identity of the assassination buff, registering his or her inquest as essentially futile.
—Art Simon, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
That has affected local organizations including the Houston Choral Society who has been forced to refigure their presentation of music for the safety of both their performers and patrons.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2020
On the flip side, the onus is on opponents to refigure the Spurs out, a task that continues with today’s game against rookie star Ja Morant and the eighth-place Memphis Grizzlies.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
The provision was sought by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to help businesses avoid having to refigure withholdings for thousands of employees who have been working remotely for weeks to avoid spreading the deadly coronavirus.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
The film works to refigure the identity of the assassination buff, registering his or her inquest as essentially futile.
—Art Simon, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refigure
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In fact, the decision to recast Duke had been a forgone conclusion heading into the unproduced fifth season.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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Over the past five years, Gulf nations have recast themselves as modernizing destinations for Western capital, which came by the billions.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
24 June 2025
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Reducing the size of a fund also means recomputing management fees, and therefore handing money back to limited partners.—
BYJessica Mathews,
Fortune,
31 July 2023
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Clearing the entire browsing history will cause Chrome to recompute the FLoC ID.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
12 June 2021
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Transcript text may be revised to correct errors or match updates to audio.—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
14 July 2025
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First, funding for small nuclear reactors (SMR) will be revised.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Her creation involved everything from sound engineering and text-to-speech software to AI computing servers.—
Faye Bradley,
Variety,
4 July 2025
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Just yesterday, for example, OpenAI agreed to rent a massive amount of computing power from Oracle data centers as part of its Stargate initiative, which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
3 July 2025
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From office associates to doctors, AI and other technologies are vastly altering how people learn and work.—
Eric Hutto,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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These alter the taste of your coffee and can even cause your machine to break down.—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
10 July 2025
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Rising American tennis star Taylor Fritz, currently number five in the world, is set to face 26th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina later on Friday for a place in the Wimbledon fourth round.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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The play slip looks a bit like a scantron sheet with five play areas (A–E) with boxes numbered 1–52 in the white play area and 1–10 in the shaded play area, according to the Tennessee Lottery.—
Allison Kiehl,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Politicians in both big political parties have been trying to reengineer the U.S. economy to boost manufacturing.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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Long dismissed as fanciful, such attempts to reengineer the earth’s atmosphere are suddenly being taken seriously by at least some mainstream experts.—
Stewart Patrick,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Advertisement Taken together, these developments would shift the balance of power in the populists’ favor, transforming how the E.U. defines its values and its interests.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
11 July 2025
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Today, the evergreen 911 is more popular than ever before, transforming over the years through eight generations.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
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