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How to pronounce rewriting in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms revising
Type of redaction, editing
Has types rephrasing, rescript, revisal, revise, revision, rewording, recasting
Derivation rewrite

Examples of rewriting

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This muscular approach continues a practice of rewriting rules to favour locals.
From the economist.com
They talk as if rewriting NAFTA will restore manufacturing to its old dominance.
From the washingtonpost.com
This Kremlinology is probably the best argument for rewriting the Fed's mandate.
From the economist.com
He wouldn't discuss any possible rewriting of Shaw's contract two years into it.
From the sfgate.com
He included direct quotes and descriptions in rewriting the histories as poetry.
From the post-gazette.com
No rewriting of history by western authors will ever change the Chinese mindset.
From the guardian.co.uk
This strategy is unreliable if the site uses URL rewriting to simplify its URLs.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In this latest defeat, the Jayhawks went about rewriting the Baylor record books.
From the kansas.com
We performed at night, rehearsed during the day, cutting, rewriting, discovering.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better"
  • Write differently; alter the writing of; "The student rewrote his thesis"
  • Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "re-write a play for use in schools"
  • A rewrite in computer programming is the act or result of re-implementing a large portion of existing functionality without re-use of its source code. When the rewrite is not using existing code at all, it is common to speak of a rewrite from scratch. ...
  • Is a Japanese visual novel being developed by the visual novel company Key that will be a DVD playable on a Microsoft Windows PC. Rewrite is Key's ninth game, along with other titles such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. ...
  • (Rewriting) In mathematics, computer science and logic, rewriting covers a wide range of (potentially non-deterministic) methods of replacing subterms of a formula with other terms. What is considered are rewriting systems (also known as rewrite systems or reduction systems). ...
  • (Rewrites) I can hear some of you thinking "Rewrites? Why go to all that effort for just a prophecy?" I know, it seems extreme. But few people have the skills to write awesome prophecies. And since we don't, we have to go to a little extra effort to make it sound really great. ...
  • (rewrites) there are two types of rewrites of older songs, the censorious hacking of a Baring-Gould, Sabine and the careful polishing of someone with some respect for the song and tradition. ...
  • (Rewriting) Creating a new manuscript or parts of a manuscript on the basis of content and research supplied by an author. May include some research and writing of original material.