refigures

present tense third-person singular of refigure

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for refigures
Verb
  • Sarnoski’s version likewise recasts the female character as a benevolent force, and is largely stripped of romance — though permits itself a streak of sentimentality in a subplot concerning the grizzled outlaw’s gentle bond with a young girl.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • The word — so often a diabolical four-letter dismissal — recasts precision as excess, ambition as ego, obsession as spectacle.
    New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The collection already numbers over 3,000 titles, and donations keep arriving.
    Derek James, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • For the country’s Jewish population, which numbers just 100, the spate of anti-Israel measures adopted by the former government contributed to a growing sense of isolation in the country.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • As artificial intelligence transforms the job market and rising living costs squeeze family budgets, the University of California system is making the case that its degrees remain valuable investments.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Each chair transforms into a full-size foam mattress that's already stored inside -- no air pumps or extra storage required.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Adler’s version, as elegant and lyrical as Fisher’s, enumerates ways to use every last scrap, bone, and core—and introduced her as a writer who made art out of the marginal.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Zuckerberg enumerates one of these very specifically, and in my view, this is one of the biggest contributions of this essay.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This specific combination alters the safety profile of the facility.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
  • That ocean warming alters where thunderstorm activity concentrates near the equator, which in turn shifts the position of the jet stream — the fast-moving river of air that steers storms across North America.
    Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • The transaction processing at your checkout is fully automated, operating within AI systems that handle millions of payments simultaneously, and computes a risk score based on dozens of features extracted from that single moment.
    Pragati Awasthi, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • Nothing about the results computes.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Pressing for clearer answers For months, frustration among stakeholders has centered on numbers that keep shifting as the district revises its budget projections.
    Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • One area where Goldman explicitly revises its prior pessimism is jobs — though not in the direction AI boosters would prefer.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • The company’s claim is that MST modifies the mechanical stress state of the silicon surface in a way that discourages dislocation nucleation and propagation during the subsequent GaN growth steps.
    Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
  • This bill modifies the sales-in-error regulations to create a new category for any current outstanding certificates to be automatically declared in error, meaning those sales will be reversed, tax buyers will be refunded and the process will restart under the new statute.
    Jenna Schweikert, CBS News, 1 June 2026
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“Refigures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refigures. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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