How to Use rejigger in a Sentence

rejigger

verb
  • The TV network is rejiggering its schedule.
  • There wasn’t much that could be done to rejigger the trade deal.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The movie then had to push its release date and do reshoots to rejigger the story.
    — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Never cut holes in your drywall and rejigger your wiring ever again!
    — Wired, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The effort to rejigger the story into something new has also opened a few plot holes.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Retail sales data led some traders to rejigger their forecasts for interest-rate cuts next year.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Fights broke out now and then as people tried to rejigger the archaic network of pipes to their advantage.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • But over the last year two new studies have radically rejiggered the origin stories of both.
    — Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • States now have a freer hand to rejigger boundaries of voting districts at all levels of government.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Thunberg seems to think the world lacks only a little kick in the pants to figure out how to rejigger itself to work on solar and wind.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • That meant building a quicker, rejiggered supply chain—and that, in turn, played to Syngal’s strengths.
    — Fortune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Sometimes we're held at basecamp while Lana is rewriting and rejiggering scenes.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
  • The business also has rejiggered its product offerings over the years.
    — Fortune, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Companies take time to rejigger their workflows and update their systems.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • The second draft of the cuts rejiggered the final reductions for many hospitals.
    — Brandon Larrabee, miamiherald, 4 May 2017
  • The whole ecosystem rejiggered itself into a state that hadn’t existed in centuries.
    — Willy Blackmore, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The rollercoaster that is the year 2020 has forced us to rejigger our daily routines.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The real question is would Warren’s left-wing populism play on the electoral map Trump has rejiggered?
    — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
  • The kit even supplies DIYers with a tool to rejigger the speedometer and odometer to work with the taller tires.
    — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Since having to completely rejigger my hair routine, finding the perfect shampoo has proven my hardest feat.
    — Blake Newby, Essence, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Even now, Delta has more than its fair share of opportunities to infect new people, replicate, and rejigger its genome.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Takaya said another lottery — open to all Japan residents — would be held by the end of the year as organizers rejigger their plans.
    — Fox News, 5 July 2019
  • Even as a structural tumult rejiggers our approach to and relief from those scenes, shifting the order has a way of shifting the implications.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Asian collectors have become such a force in the global art market that the world’s chief auction houses are rejiggering their sales calendars to suit them.
    — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2017
  • And a new state law will force the companies to rejigger their fleets to accommodate wheelchair using-passengers more quickly.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Step one, however, is AMC’s plan to launch a popcorn business … and Aron’s new plan to rejigger its debt.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The other steadfast friend, the soldier Alcibiades, has been vastly rejiggered in an attempt to give the play a timely hook.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The thinking is that perhaps some of the funding already in law could be rejiggered, though Democrats are sure to howl if the White House proceeds.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Others are trying to rejigger their New York City operations to keep serving food.
    — Fortune, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Yet the old codgers of tech—or any industry—that are able to rejigger themselves and get moving again are the more impressive heroes, turning the clichéd aircraft carrier.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 15 June 2018

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