REWORKED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

reworked

verb

past tense of rework

as in modified

to make different in some way the sculptor reworked the clay into another shape

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as in edited

to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating the magazine will publish your poem if you rework it so that it's a little shorter

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Recent Examples of reworked The standout pairing is the Black Cardamom cocktail, smoky with single malt and mezcal, next to Sandhu's nihari reworked with compressed shank meat. — Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026 Rolex engineers reworked the movement with some 200 modifications, renaming it Caliber 4030. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 More than a decade later, the project has been updated, reworked and rearranged with new electronic elements, new text and fresh orchestrations by Sven Helbig. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026 Both were reworked by into something lighter and more contemporary. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 Most of these essays were previously published, revised and reworked for this edition. — David Conrads, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2026 For fall 2026, the focus is on four core jackets, the Karakorum, Verone, Himalaya and Tibb, each reworked with new materials, proportions and details. — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026 Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Chinese leaders under Deng were able to kickstart China’s era of rapid growth through rural reforms that completely reworked Maoist economic orthodoxy. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026 La Cinquecento has comprehensively reworked the little Italian icon into something collectors will line up over. — New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026

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The new generation of therapeutic peptides is chemically modified to resist breakdown in the gastrointestinal tract, where traditional peptide drugs degrade before they can be absorbed.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
That makes this galactic trio bad news for MOND, or modified Newtonian dynamics, an alternative to dark matter proposed in 1983 by the physicist Mordehai Milgrom.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of modified

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Researchers showed respondents two versions of the same video, one edited by a human, one by AI, without telling them which was which, and asked for a blind preference before revealing anything about how either was made.

— Muhammad Usman Qamar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity.

— Peter Balonon-Rosen, Vox, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of edited

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The expectations are there for the Bengals, which remodeled their defense and offensive line with the goal of making another Super Bowl run during the Burrow era.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
Designed in the mid-1990s by architect Steven Ehrlich and later remodeled by interior designer Michael Lee, the residence offers four bedrooms and six bathrooms in roughly 6,500 square feet.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of remodeled

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Citing Catholic doctrine revised under his predecessor, Pope Francis, Leo emphasized that the death penalty violates human dignity.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
However, figures are at times revised higher after ships have moved through the strait, as many switch off their identification systems to try to avoid detection.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of revised

Verb

The label will be applied to songs that were created entirely or altered significantly with AI.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
And Mars, to this day, even after its climate has been substantially altered, still has all the raw materials for life in abundance in a way that the moon doesn’t and that even Venus doesn’t.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of altered

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In Sunny Isles Beach, another town that’s been remade by major development projects, the Bentley Residences tower is expected to be completed this year.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
Of course, there are only so many bad movies that are ripe to be remade; only so many movies that are famous enough to feel like safe investments, but also flawed enough to guarantee that Hollywood executives will feel like creative geniuses for improving upon them.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Nov. 2025

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