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remap

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[ree-map] / ˌriˈmæp /

verb (used with object)

remapped, remapping
  1. to map, lay out, or organize again or in a new way.


noun

  • remaps
    plural
  1. an act or instance of mapping, laying out, or organizing again or in a new way.

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Garcia, 67, says voters have repeatedly put him in office, including in 2022 after a remap added new territory to the district.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

Indonesia’s State Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir told reporters that the government will remap safe zones for residential areas away from vital objects.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

You can remap this to activate your phone’s voice assistant if you wish.

From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2022

Circuit Court of Appeal means a special session may start Wednesday for a remap ordered by a district judge.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022

To remap any key, just click the box alongside it and select whatever function you’d like it to have.

From The Verge ● May 25, 2022

Key remaps also aren’t saved to the keyboard, so you’ll have to remap it if you ever want to connect it to an alternative PC.

From The Verge ● Nov. 9, 2021

Ordnance Survey remaps every part of Britain at least once every five years.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2013

His version of “For the Good Times” irretrievably remaps Kris Kristofferson’s tender relationship kiss-off as a final farewell.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2010

The mouse’s negative memory of being shocked in Box B had, essentially, been remapped to what was previously a neutral memory of Box A. The scientists had created a false memory, another seminal feat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

"If there are consequential judgments that are biased by facial stereotypes, our findings suggest that they have the potential to be flexibly remapped and dismantled," the paper concludes.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023

For the new study, researchers remapped more than 90% of the Iceman’s genome using state-of-the-art, high-coverage techniques.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 16, 2023

I remapped the “look behind” function in Gran Turismo 7 to a rear paddle, which was more intuitive to me than the default L1 button mapping.

From The Verge ● Mar. 17, 2022

That’s what started the wild ride that remapped the course of my life.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

It’s a fool’s errand at this moment to guess where any of this turns out or which party ends up ahead in the remapping effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Many shoppers and sellers have taken to social media saying Vinted listings now show a different size category than originally posted because of the remapping.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Insights gained from the remapping index and fidelity of neural signals can be useful in predicting how much memory decline can occur in people diagnosed with dementia, Zheng said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

In Ms. Luria’s seat, which is based in Virginia Beach and became less Democratic in the remapping, national Republicans backed State Senator Jen Kiggans, who defeated Jarome Bell, a Navy veteran.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

On Saturday, the Senate Senate spent two hours grappling with the remapping issue and then took an hourlong recess to see how proposed changes to a last-ditch bill might settle out.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

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