1
as in to remodel
to make different in some way one of those people who left the security and conformity of a small town to remake their lives in the big city

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as in to replicate
to make or do again yesterday's soup was so good that we decided to remake it for today's lunch

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Recent Examples of remake Flashback: Back in 2023, global tech company Expensify partnered with the city to remake one of Portland's oldest food cart pods adjacent to its headquarters. Meira Gebel, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025 For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms. Colin Gordon, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025 But if the Rangers don’t bring their best effort in Columbus on Saturday, general manager Chris Drury’s desire to remake this roster could become a lot stronger and sharper with two weeks off and a month to go until the trade deadline. Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025 Experiencing the narrative through a floating, first-person lens proves a cinematic magic trick that both breaks and then remakes the rules of the art form – ultimately, illuminating the poetic power of movies as engines of empathy. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for remake
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  • President Donald Trump and members of his second administration are continuing their effort to swiftly remodel the federal government, including making far-reaching changes to personnel.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Hervey-Jumper found that language function in patients inversely correlated with the degree to which the cancer had remodeled the language circuitry.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
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  • Many people find that giving back brings them a sense of joy and accomplishment that cannot be replicated by career achievements or material possessions.
    Vikram Joshi, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • There’s that personality thing that just cannot be replicated yet.
    Charles Moss, SPIN, 26 Feb. 2025
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  • Despite pushback from local police chiefs, Santa Clara County supervisors six years ago did not modify the ICE notification component of the county policy, citing in part the shaky reliability of confirming someone’s immigration status in real-time.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • With this level of control, Shedd would be able to not only view and modify federal data, but also grant and revoke access to other people.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2025
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  • Trump’s accusation, posted on his social media network Truth Social, came just hours after Zelensky accused him of repeating Russian disinformation.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Can Amador Valley repeat last season’s magical run?
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
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  • Sometimes the bird can change its degree of fluorescence just by moving into areas with more or less light.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Yes, life had changed dramatically, and those changes would also have meaningful implications in our financial planning.
    Tim Maurer, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
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  • The streamer has renewed Outlast, which comes from executive producer Jason Bateman, for a third season.
    Peter White, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The debate over possible Medicaid cuts and renewing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will be two of the hardest policies to negotiate with the Senate.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Feb. 2025
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  • But in the real world, a lot of different factors can alter how easily measles transmits.
    Alyson Hurt, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In some cases, they were altered for the purpose of recording information.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 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
  • 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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“Remake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remake. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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