reshape
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Present
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reshapesimple
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reshapessimple
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have reshapedperfect
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has reshapedperfect
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am reshapingprogressive
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are reshapingprogressive
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is reshapingprogressive
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have been reshapingperfect progressive
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has been reshapingperfect progressive
Past
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reshapedsimple
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had reshapedperfect
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was reshapingprogressive
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were reshapingprogressive
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had been reshapingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reshape
Explanation
When you reshape something, you change or transform it completely. You can reshape a lump of clay, but you can also reshape your plans for your life. A government can reshape the country's energy plan, incorporating more environmentally friendly systems. And a school committee can reshape the high school curriculum, adding higher-level science classes and more choices in the art department. It's also possible to reshape things in a more literal way, squeezing bread dough as you reshape it to fit a different pan, for example.
Example Sentences
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The AI revolution has promised to reshape the way we work and live and has created vast wealth for investors in a handful of companies predominantly in the US and Asia.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Analysts say a takeover could reshape the payments space, bringing together major fintech powerhouses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
These fragments provided strong evidence that the bone had been used to strike, reshape and maintain stone tools on multiple occasions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
New York adopted a temporary, targeted pause on new hyperscale AI data centers that use 50 megawatts or more while we establish clear rules for an industry that will reshape our economy for generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
I reshape her body again, stretching her limbs like sugar-sticks, cinching her waist, and making her a whole four inches taller.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Beyond improving cardiovascular fitness, new research suggests that moderate aerobic exercise reshapes the nerves that regulate the heart.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Nvidia took the top spot in WSJ’s inaugural ranking of “Best Companies for the Future,” topping a list heavy on tech stalwarts as AI reshapes business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The layoffs bludgeoning the tech industry continued this week as artificial intelligence reshapes the industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
As GLP-1 use reshapes dining, restaurants are also dealing with a consumer stretched by higher costs of living.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
He surely reshapes the experience in connecting every single impression with the totality of events, in finding the general in the particular, in transforming the given facts into the scientific scheme of an atomistic universe.
From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Münsterberg, Hugo
He says attachment is often reshaped during periods of transition, particularly during adolescence, when young people begin forming close relationships beyond their family.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
While Kennedy describes himself at times as a small-town lawyer from Sacramento, he knew the two California governors, both Republicans, who reshaped the Supreme Court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
New concourses, expanded corridors and improved passenger facilities have reshaped the transit hub, which serves hundreds of thousands of commuters and travelers each day and remains the busiest rail station in the United States.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Constitutional law was reshaped by the campaign to outlaw segregation, by the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment, and by the campaign for constitutionally protected same-sex marriage.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The next chapter explains how the foragers completely reshaped the ecology of our planet long before the first agricultural village was built.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Steven's weekly column examines the ways in which AI and other deep technologies—and the money and people behind them—are reshaping business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Nolan preserves the broad arc of Odysseus’ struggle to return home while freely reshaping what happens along the way, often shifting the emphasis from the mythological to the psychological.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In two essays published shortly before his Makerfield campaign, Haigh set out a vision for a radical reshaping of the British state.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The debate is not about whether AI is real or whether it’s reshaping the U.S. economy by fundamentally altering corporate productivity, capital allocation and the labor market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
This reshaping of events happens in a dozen ways every day, contesting reality.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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