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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of redraft.

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  • Anything I wrote of any substance would be edited "redrafted" by my superiors, who would subject my prose to the most thorough copy-editing it has ever had-getting to the point, cutting out the Latinate, shortening the sentences, making sure the proposed "handling" of an issue was clear.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Anything I wrote of any substance would be edited "redrafted" by my superiors, who would subject my prose to the most thorough copy-editing it has ever had-getting to the point, cutting out the Latinate, shortening the sentences, making sure the proposed "handling" of an issue was clear.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Team Anna began waging a far greater battle -- the passing of the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill, which, moribund in parliament for decades, has been carefully redrafted into a 29 page document by the India Against Corruption IAC organization.

    Rio Helmi: Anna Hazare: Savior or Destroyer of Democracy? Rio Helmi 2011

  • The purpose of the gathering was to establish guiding principles for a new political party to compete in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, as well as to agree upon provisions for a newly redrafted constitution.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's New Facelift Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011

  • By the time of his move to the Met last month, his Surrey biog had been redrafted.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • So I might not have a redrafted novel (la), but I've got 31,751 words toward one.

    Poetry kirizal 2009

  • I will certainly do so, and to prove it, I have redrafted the form letter for the museum, at no charge:

    On What Some Flyfishermen Really Think of Dick Cheney 2009

  • The purpose of the gathering was to establish guiding principles for a new political party to compete in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, as well as to agree upon provisions for a newly redrafted constitution.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's New Facelift Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011

  • He suggested the constitution could be redrafted entirely if a national dialogue produced a consensus.

    Syria's Assad Nods to Critics Nour Malas 2011

  • The other challenge was brought by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission EHRC, which argued the redrafted instructions issued last year fail to meet the UK's obligations in both international and domestic law.

    High court rules it unlawful to put hood over suspect's head 2011

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