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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
The narrative rewrites itself almost overnight.
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Jessica Billingsley,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rewrites
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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.
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The legislation amends the Brown Act to diversify and increase public engagement in meetings of local legislative bodies.
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Pressing for clearer answers For months, frustration among stakeholders has centered on numbers that keep shifting as the district revises its budget projections.
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One area where Goldman explicitly revises its prior pessimism is jobs — though not in the direction AI boosters would prefer.
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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.
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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.
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Both her steel hull and aluminum superstructure are finished in a custom warm gray hue with a subtle pearlescent quality that changes with light.
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After that 18-month trial, patients could lose access to Medicare coverage for GLP-1s used for weight loss unless the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issues an extension or Congress changes the law, according to Cubanski.
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Just as the resumption of the age-old war with Indian also improves the breed.
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Birds are essential for creating a sustainable landscape that supports wildlife and improves biodiversity in the garden.
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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.
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This bill modifies the sales-in-error regulations to create a new category for any current outstanding certificates to be automatically declared in error, meaning those sales will be reversed, tax buyers will be refunded and the process will restart under the new statute.
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