recasting
- noun
- /ˈriːˌkæstɪŋ/
- A simple recasting of such endless sentences can work miracles for clarity.
The phase of recasting how the brain works, which is what you did.
- The phase of recasting how the brain works, which is what you did.
- This is a soft reboot, so this is not recasting.
Examples
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The students' essay benefited from a recasting of their initial arguments to make them clearer.
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My solution involves the recasting of venerable institutions into forms appropriate for the contemporary era.
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Comments, criticisms, and recasting in more effective form are all welcome.
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As a result, the fourth element of this emerging grand strategy involves a recasting of the terms of sovereignty.
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Even more notable was China's recasting of its approach to Sudan.
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Indeed, in fields from archaeology to zoology, the introduction of the computer has led to a recasting of basic disciplinary concepts.
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They are looking up, and they have the Lord's Prayer in what is Dante's own recasting of the canonical prayer.
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There are several ways to change a liturgy, such as by substitution, addition, deletion, re-ordering, recasting, and innovation.
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The arguments that he adapted from Cicero and Quintilian evidently articulated this sense of purpose, and his recasting of them was perfectly in keeping with the practice of classical rhetoric.
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Smith's recasting of philosophy is part and parcel of his reinterpretation of love (148-155) and beauty (109-112, 311-49).
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
Changing a text to make it clearer or better
A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer
Putting something into different words to make it clearer
Saying or writing the same idea using different words to make it clearer
Saying something in different words to make it clearer
Expressing an idea again in a new, clearer way
Saying or writing something again in a different way to make it clearer
To describe something again in a new or clearer way
Saying someone else's words in a new way to make them clearer
The act of changing writing to make it clearer
An act of changing something written to make it clearer or more correct
Making a new version of something by changing its parts or structure
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recasting comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and cast meaning 'to throw' or 'to shape', like when you cast something in a mould. So recasting is shaping or saying something again in a new form, which is why it means expressing the same idea differently.