verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rewrite history (= change what we believe are the facts about the past )
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They're trying to rewrite history to exaggerate their role in the war.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
history
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M Lionel Jospin, former Minister of Education, said that it was an astonishing rewrite of history .
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Hugo, this rewrites human history !
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These fossils, for example, don't rewrite our history but they do illustrate it usefully.
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And not betraying the past, either, not rewriting our private history to suit herself.
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James's book rather rewrites history when he says that he wanted Niki to think he'd been psyched out.
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It is an error to rewrite history to pretend that they did.
law
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It has had to rewrite aspects of law and order in order to gain support for its economic policies.
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Also in its wake will follow countless problems in rewriting the law related to marriage and divorce.
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None the less, Nutt said, the attention paid this case may be enough to finally force a rewriting of the law .
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There is no such thing as a minor rewriting of physical laws .
rule
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The rewrite rule is an effective method of representing the rules of a generative grammar.
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Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, failed in their effort to rewrite the rules for legal immigration.
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A highly crafted, hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest.
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But Congress may rewrite those rules in coming months.
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Yet what it did not have was the ability to rewrite the rules of economics.
■ VERB
write
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I enjoyed the writing and the rewriting .
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Next, create a realistic schedule, including time for researching, writing , and rewriting the material.
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He writes and rewrites in long-hand, and endlessly checks for the smallest detail.
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At times, you can leisurely assemble your document, writing and rewriting it one day and showing it the next.
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I was nervous but determined, and came home to write and rewrite the article a dozen times.
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They tried writing and rewriting , each time coming up with dull and wordy expressions.
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Ripped through that document in record time, listing, writing , rewriting , and, yes, even showing your message.
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My letter was not the sort of letter you spent months writing and rewriting .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Perhaps you ought to rewrite the first paragraph to make it a little clearer.
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Usually Woodward would do a first draft, then Bernstein would rewrite it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, the rewriting task will require changing tenses.
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Had Fernand Braudel lived to see this book republished, he would surely have wanted to rewrite it.
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I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg, the lighting cameraman, and we worked on rewriting the script.
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Sometimes, without thinking, I almost pick up the pen and start rewriting our campaign literature.
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They decided to rewrite several accounting policies at Iberian.
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They rescued me from my predicament, and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter.