rewrote

verb

past tense of rewrite
as in amended
to write (something) again especially in a different way in order to improve it or to include new information The teacher asked him to rewrite the essay. I had to rewrite the computer program.

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Recent Examples of rewrote Minnesota’s legislature rewrote the law to close the loophole that same year. — Ilana Turko, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026 Lisa Lisa rewrote natural, nude nail laws on the carpet, upgrading the plain technique with curved, talon tips. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 But Sendhil Ramamurthy’s audition was so impressive that Tim Kring rewrote the role for him, making Mohinder the son of the original geneticist. — Megan Vick, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026 Earlier this year, the Academy rewrote one of its oldest acting rules. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 But Liu and Glorioso rewrote the equations in a more accessible way in 2018, and the calculations started to trickle out. — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026 Kansas City Royals star Salvador Perez rewrote the club record books with his 318th career home run on Saturday. — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026 The resilient Kiwi rewrote the record books this weekend at Royal Birkdale. — Justin Ray, New York Times, 19 July 2026 Outfield and utility Kaylee Vien, senior, Byron Nelson The Temple College signee rewrote the Byron Nelson record books, setting single-season program marks in hits, doubles, home runs and RBIs while also breaking the career home run record. — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rewrote
  1. amended
  2. revised
  3. reworked
  4. improved
  5. changed
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  • York was initially charged with engaging in prostitution, but prosecutors amended that to disorderly conduct.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Wicks ultimately voted in favor of the bill after policy implications to housing construction were amended out.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of amended
Verb
  • And Congress has yet to pass a new farm bill — a measure that is intended to be revised about every five years to set agriculture policy but has been extended for the last three years.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Those projections were revised down (and revised down again) after a deluge of bad buzz.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of revised
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  • For fall 2026, the focus is on four core jackets, the Karakorum, Verone, Himalaya and Tibb, each reworked with new materials, proportions and details.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Chinese leaders under Deng were able to kickstart China’s era of rapid growth through rural reforms that completely reworked Maoist economic orthodoxy.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of reworked
Verb
  • Although the food situation has improved since last year’s famine, Israel continues to restrict humanitarian aid, allowing only a fraction of the daily 600 truckloads required in the cease-fire deal to enter the territory.
    — KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI also did not include full prompts or run-time details for how their agents uncovered the proofs, and officials admitted in a blog post about the results that citations and written descriptions of findings could be improved in future releases.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of improved
Verb
  • Also check whether the company has changed its privacy policy or added new controls.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • If records are made to be broken, then stats are made to be changed.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of changed

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“Rewrote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rewrote. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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