refigure

verb

Definition of refigurenext
1
as in to recast

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2
as in to recompute

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Recent Examples of refigure Muldrow does what Black artists have always done uniquely well — signify upon, revise and refigure a theme, expanding an existing form through a clever new one. — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021 That has affected local organizations including the Houston Choral Society who has been forced to refigure their presentation of music for the safety of both their performers and patrons. — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2020 On the flip side, the onus is on opponents to refigure the Spurs out, a task that continues with today’s game against rookie star Ja Morant and the eighth-place Memphis Grizzlies. — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020 The provision was sought by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to help businesses avoid having to refigure withholdings for thousands of employees who have been working remotely for weeks to avoid spreading the deadly coronavirus. — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020 The film works to refigure the identity of the assassination buff, registering his or her inquest as essentially futile. — Art Simon, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refigure
  1. recast
  2. recompute
  3. revise
  4. subtract
  5. alter
  6. number
  7. reengineer
  8. transform
Verb
  • Ultimately, a decision was made to recast the role, and Watson had to reshoot her A.B. scenes with Esposito.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
  • That’s a witty way to recast the words of hardware and software to describe the living neurons and the biological neural network that does our thinking.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of recast
Verb
  • Reducing the size of a fund also means recomputing management fees, and therefore handing money back to limited partners.
    — BYJessica Mathews, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • Clearing the entire browsing history will cause Chrome to recompute the FLoC ID.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 June 2021
Definition of recompute
Verb
  • The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to curtail a lower court’s ability to issue a national injunction, hatching a novel legal strategy in its bid to radically revise a bedrock American principle: birthright citizenship.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes and, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • El Paso County officials initially estimated the fire was 4,000 acres, but revised the size to 3,000 acres Thursday night.
    — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of revise
Verb
  • When the losses exceed the gains, then up to $3,000 of capital losses can be subtracted against your other income.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • That’s not too bad given that the club subtracted the straw that stirs the drink for them in five-on-four.
    — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of subtract
Verb
  • These changes are fundamentally altering the ecosystem.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Farmers in southern California could alter watering strategies to keep crops robust during a coming draught.
    — Renny Vandewege, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of alter
Verb
  • The aggregate capacity of these systems, which will number in the thousands, will exceed 40 million Llama 70B tokens per second.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Many children from the county’s Mennonite community, which numbers in the thousands, are unvaccinated, but they won’t get picked up in state tallies, because they are either homeschooled or enrolled in nonaccredited private schools, which are not required to collect such data.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of number
Verb
  • Instead, agencies can reengineer systems and training processes to ensure that more people can safely participate in space missions.
    — Jesse Rhoades, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Critical thinking, the ability to reengineer processes when needed and the ability to manage that change effectively are also critical.
    — Jeffrey Hammond, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of reengineer
Verb
  • The floor, transformed into a gymnasium, set the stage for a rock-band performance complete with cheerleaders, while performers in basketball uniforms moved through the scene.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • After living in eight different houses in six states, Jena Salmon transforms an 1980s ranch-style home in her native Lone Star State.
    — Diana Oates, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of transform

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