reworking
- present participle of rework.
Example Sentences
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Custer learned to be patient, sometimes reworking her instructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
By the end of the fittings, Hallyday had recut and resewn all three pieces several times, adjusting shades of white, reworking the skirt’s fabrics and refining the jacket’s cut, which was her biggest challenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The biologist Michael Levin gets closer to the hard problem: The self, he claims, is memory reworking itself as circumstances demand, and consciousness the feeling of being “in charge of constant self-construction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
The new number one is a duet reworking of a track of the same name taken from Fender's third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Thus the claim that there is a new concept of evidence in the 1660s is mistaken; wherever we look what we find is nothing but the reworking of Quintilian’s distinctions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
