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- verb Present participle of
revise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun editing that involves writing something again
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Examples
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"I used to spend at least three hours a day on it which I called revising," he told me.
BBC Blog Network 2009
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I am hoping that in revising DUST I will get that run-ahead thing.
mrissa: Whatever skills the duck knows now, it's stuck with them for awhile. mrissa 2010
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Anyway, to put JPL contractor employees before other contractors in revising a Presidential Directive just doesn't seem appropriate.
HSPD-12 Update: Rep. Schiff Letter to Eric Holder - NASA Watch 2009
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The danger is in revising your definition downward as you realize how hard your goals are.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself Part One 2010
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You will not succeed in revising history and making the Confederacy noble.
Virginia governor declares April as Confederate History Month 2010
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I expect libertarians to demonstrate flexibility in revising these sorts of conceptions in response to reality.
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I personally am thrilled to hear what a struggle revising is for you.
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However, I've never really had an efficient system and I've often wondered if, in revising using my own subjective techniques, I've inadvertently made my work worse instead of better.
Looking For a Ball of Yarn Ulysses 2009
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The payoff, though, is that in revising it I can sometimes get it to approach what I had in mind — and sometimes the process of getting it on the page sparks new ideas that are even more awesome.
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However, I've never really had an efficient system and I've often wondered if, in revising using my own subjective techniques, I've inadvertently made my work worse instead of better.
Archive 2009-05-01 Ulysses 2009
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