as in to modify
to make different in some way
once he recast the question in different terms, I understood what he was asking
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Recent Examples of recast
The preponderance and diversity of such high-quality, easy-to-access threads has recast off-the-rack suits as the ultimate way to experiment with your look, not just a way for some to get dressed on the cheap.
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Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2025
News networks are shaking up their lineups, editorial pages are recasting their attitudes at the behest of wealthy owners and corporate media parent companies are settling lawsuits with Mr. Trump or considering doing so.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
There’s a predictable love triangle, the betrayal that explains the corrosive relationship between the lion brothers and Biblical undertones that cast and recast the roles of Adam and Eve as well as Cain and Abel.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
The series, which HBO plans to run for the next decade across multiple streaming seasons, is separate from the film adaptations, which means every actor is being recast, from Hagrid to Voldemort.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2025
News networks are shaking up their lineups, editorial pages are recasting their attitudes at the behest of wealthy owners and corporate media parent companies are settling lawsuits with Mr. Trump or considering doing so.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
There’s a predictable love triangle, the betrayal that explains the corrosive relationship between the lion brothers and Biblical undertones that cast and recast the roles of Adam and Eve as well as Cain and Abel.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
The series, which HBO plans to run for the next decade across multiple streaming seasons, is separate from the film adaptations, which means every actor is being recast, from Hagrid to Voldemort.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recast
Verb
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Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR, scientists can modify the pig’s DNA.—
Nadia Kounang,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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Based on the series parallel hybrid system used in the Prius, the Subaru version has been modified to work with Subaru's preferred boxer engine and Symmetrical AWD system.—
Aaron Turpen,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2025
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None of this, however, changes those one in 13.7 million mortality odds that MIT calculated.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Feb. 2025
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Over the last century, humans have dramatically changed that cycle.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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Similarly, furniture, mattresses, and home improvement goods could also be affected, making home renovations and remodeling more costly.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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The owners of local chain Sidecar Slider Bar will remodel the space on West Nine Mile Road in order to open a new concept.—
Joe Guillen,
Axios,
29 Jan. 2025
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The latter type of metamorphosis creates issues that can’t be easily altered, for instance, shortening a now too-long coat that no longer drapes over a gut.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
16 Feb. 2025
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But researchers are still trying to understand exactly how the fungus alters and affects the brains of spiders to control them.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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For the season, designers such as Daniel Roseberry of Schiaparelli, Thom Browne, Elie Saab and Mohammed Ashi, to name a few, reworked the corset while paying homage to Jean Paul Gaultier.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
15 Feb. 2025
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Image The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova In her fresh take on the vampire novel, Kostova reworks the Dracula legend with a historian’s meticulous attention to detail.—
M.L. Rio,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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In 2017, Fort Worth ISD transformed five chronically underperforming campuses —Mitchell Boulevard, Como, John T. White, and Maude I. Logan elementary schools and Forest Oak Middle School — into leadership academies as part of a $5.5 million effort to boost academic performance at those schools.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Pride Promenade will transform tiny Pride Plaza and unusually wide Normal Street into a large linear park spanning from University Avenue to Lincoln Street.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Recast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recast. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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