recast
Americanverb
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(often foll by as) to give (someone or something) a new role, function, or character
recast themselves as moderate and kind
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(often foll by as) to cast (an actor or actress) again or in a different part
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to cast new actors or actresses for a production of (a play, film, etc)
Other Word Forms
- recaster noun
Etymology
Origin of recast
Example Sentences
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An Onset representative said the fraud committed by Patrick James “is simply staggering” and his “effort to recast himself as a victim and shift blame to Onset is nothing more than factually unsupported posturing.”
Despite the best efforts of interviewers to recast Seattle’s rise as a Sam Darnold redemption arc, he’s refused to make it about himself.
The smartphone, long considered the preserve of the youth, was suddenly recast as a tacky trademark of Young 40s.
From BBC
In Guo’s re-reading, it is not just Ishmael that was recast, as Ahab now appears in the form of a freed black man named Seneca.
From Los Angeles Times
Almost nine months later, instead of crumbling under the highest U.S. tariffs in almost a century, the global trade system has been recast along new lines.
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