recast
verb (used with object)
to cast again or anew.
had recast
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past perfectof recast.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But by the time of his death, at age 100, the 2008 global financial crisis had recast his aura of technocratic omnipotence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
They had recast the play without telling me.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2020
In Chicago, a former street gang called the Young Lords had recast itself in the mold of the Panthers, with tactics both militant and community-based.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
By the middle of the 20th century, developers had recast the accident as a miracle, dubbing the area “the Salton Riviera.”
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2018
Aristotle had recast heredity as the flow of information—a river of code moving from egg to the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
