reinterpret
Britishverb
Other Word Forms
- reinterpretation noun
Example Sentences
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He spoke the language of “affordability” with a relentless rhetorical focus on the issue while offering something more profound to voters: permission to reinterpret disappointment as injustice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
And while there’s also a lot of personality emanating from the chrome hearts, no one onstage is trying to reinterpret the songs from outside their known, established frameworks.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025
“The Penguin” arrives on TV just as King’s “The Penguin” comic wraps its run, but it shows how even after 80 years of storytelling, there are still ways to stretch and reinterpret the iconic villain.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024
A group of racially diverse artists invited to reinterpret a touring British Museum collection with links to slavery have raised issues around payment, representation and emotional support.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024
If certain old texts were held in too high esteem to be neglected, the ingenuity of the commentator rarely failed to reinterpret them as favourable to the views popular in his time.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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