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- verb Simple past of
rewrite .
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Examples
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And he never rewrote a word, as one editor did to my horror.
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As a teenager in the Seventies his favorite movies included Star Wars ( "which kind of rewrote the playbook"), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien.
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So Ireland experienced an economic boom after it "rewrote" tax policies and "changed" tax rates.
Are We There Yet? James Taranto 2008
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As a teenager in the Seventies his favorite movies included Star Wars ( "which kind of rewrote the playbook"), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien.
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As a teenager in the Seventies his favorite movies included Star Wars ( "which kind of rewrote the playbook"), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien.
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And GGM has famously remarked that Rabassa did not translate but instead "rewrote" the book and in so doing, improved upon the original.
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Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed.
Archive 2004-07-18 2004
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Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed.
Archive 2004-07-18 2004
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They kind of rewrote the message around this tough take on a sweet relationship.
mjsbigblog 2009
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So I kind of rewrote some stuff, and it turned out to be a worship song.
Cross Rhythms 2009
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