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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rework.
  • adjective worked again

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Examples

  • Clearly not intimidated by a design challenge, British table mathematician, designer and artist Anthony Leyland has developed these creative tables sliced, bent, shaped and reworked from a single 1-square meter sheet of steel.

    Too Peace Table 2009

  • About 10,000 of those borrowers live in their homes and are likely to get their mortgage terms reworked, while about 6,000 are investors, according to the company.

    Citi to Modify Terms for U.S. Mortgages 2008

  • Parts are not "reworked" unless an engineer decides they can be reworked and still handle the structural loads, which in this case the part clearly could not with that weld.

    Selling Defective Parts to NASA - NASA Watch 2008

  • Backward slow orbit and 'reworked' surface features

    How Do You Pronounce 'Uranus'? | Universe Today 2010

  • I have to think your day would suck if you stole (sorry, "reworked") ostensibly factual stuff only to find out the supposedly millennium-old secret society at the very heart of your rejiggered story was, as Miller says, "the invention, in the 1950s, of a man ... who had a history of fraud, embezzlement and membership in ultra-conservative, quasi-mystical and virulently anti-Semitic Catholic groups."

    Davis Sweet: What, Me Da Vinci? 2008

  • Also, "the Savage Fin" whom I don't believe was even referred to as such in Larsen's MCP run was most certainly not "reworked" into the Savage Dragon.

    Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #155 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Sir George Martin, 80, ended his run as the Beatles 'legendary producer with a CD of "reworked" tracks ( "Love").

    Music: "And in the End ... " 2007

  • Mallika, Brown says he kind of reworked passages from other books to write his novel.

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2006 2006

  • MORRIS: You know, this whole thing about the "girls rule, boys drool," it used to be an empty slogan, but you have kind of reworked that.

    CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2006 2006

  • The protest programme had to be "reworked" to incorporate these recommendations, Mr Nyembazi said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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