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  • noun Plural form of rewording.

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Examples

  • I like the idea behind the challenging rewordings; we should think carefully about the implications of what we espouse.

    Wording the Questions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • In theory, you should be able to effectively curtail Metro by amending the charter to completely eliminate Chapter II, Section 5 of their Charter, and make a few other minor rewordings to remove references to it elsewhere.

    More citizen involvement abuse (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • I am quite sure you are mistaken on this point, and that I can find a large number of very different definitions (not just rewordings, but very different meanings) provided on this board, on other ID resources, in academic references from psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and so on.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Surely repeats and rewordings are common when people are asked to repeat a complex oath in front of ...

    Lisa and Michael Littman: Oath and Variations 2009

  • Surely repeats and rewordings are common when people are asked to repeat a complex oath in front of an audience.

    Lisa and Michael Littman: Oath and Variations 2009

  • Surely repeats and rewordings are common when people are asked to repeat a complex oath in front of ... digg

    Lisa and Michael Littman: Oath and Variations 2009

  • In January 2006, Wikipedia imported this 1908 article, with an insertion and a few modernizing rewordings, and it now reads:

    The Charms of Wikipedia Baker, Nicholson 2008

  • Kelly - I don't know that I can post rewordings of emails: it's all too context-specific.

    Home again home again, jiggerty slump. StyleyGeek 2008

  • For the popularized 1880 version, notes Salter, “Alcott agreed not only to revisions of grammar and punctuation but also to rewordings that cleaned up slang, simplified cultural references, remade ‘motherly’ Marmee as ‘noble-looking,’ and in dozens of ways conventionalized sentiment, gender roles and character.”

    Today’s Reads | PopPolitics.com 2005

  • For the popularized 1880 version, notes Salter, “Alcott agreed not only to revisions of grammar and punctuation but also to rewordings that cleaned up slang, simplified cultural references, remade ‘motherly’ Marmee as ‘noble-looking,’ and in dozens of ways conventionalized sentiment, gender roles and character.”

    Print - Today’s Reads | PopPolitics.com 2005

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