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refigures

Definition of refiguresnext
present tense third-person singular of refigure

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo recasts Ishmael as a 17-year-old girl disguised as a cabin boy and Ahab as a Black freedman named Seneca, haunted by his father’s legacy of enslavement.
    Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Created by Jean-Baptiste Delafon and directed by Jessica Palud, the six-episode drama not only makes Merteuil its protagonist, but also supplies backstory that recasts her as less a monster than a wounded woman fighting for the same freedom men enjoy.
    Judy Berman, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Get all three to pivot at once, and the story transforms.
    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Previous studies have shown that hardware tailored for specific mathematical operations, such as Fourier and convolution transforms, can significantly outperform general-purpose processors.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The vast majority of the state’s Somali population, which numbers around 108,000 in total, are US citizens.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The center numbers a total of 110 employees, most of which born in the 2000s.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Under the influence for the first time, the drug trip alters her sense of morals to deadly, comedic proportions.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The order alters the timeline for decommissioning Schahfer, according to the statement, but NIPCSO’s long-term plan to transition to sustainable energy remains unchanged.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Zuckerberg enumerates one of these very specifically, and in my view, this is one of the biggest contributions of this essay.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But the latest overhaul, part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), revises work requirements and alters who is exempt from them.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Outside of the payrolls and CPI report, the BLS also computes data on import and export prices, job openings, producer prices, productivity and other metrics.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
  • When a question is asked of the FLM, the trust model removes non-domain vocabulary, computes a latent space representation and measures how close this vector is to the knowledge anchors.
    Scott Zoldi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The new law adds homeowner protections, establishing a registry for heir properties and modifies tax sale redemption rules.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The subtlety decreases as Elvira further modifies her body in anticipation of the ball.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Refigures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refigures. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.

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