recast
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, (ˌ)rē-ˈkast \
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Synonyms
alter, change, make over, modify, redo, refashion, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary
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Others are upset Halle doesn't look like the cartoon version of Ariel and someone even made a petition to try to get Disney to recast. — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, "People Are Clapping Back At Trolls Who Are Mad That Halle Bailey Will Star in Disney’s "The Little Mermaid"," 8 July 2019 This time around, Kinberg goes darker and scarier, emphasizing the tragic elements of Jean’s story by recasting her origin as a story of betrayal and deception and her possession as a condition fueled by justifiable rage. — Keith Phipps, The Verge, "In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men franchise is still Marvel’s weird, mutant cinematic stepchild," 5 June 2019 By recasting Ivan’s brutality as a prerequisite for progress, the tsar’s proponents have molded him into a prototype for contemporary Russian autocracy. — Noah Sneider, Harper's magazine, "Slash Fictions," 10 May 2019 As Hammer’s work reframes the pastoral tradition through a contemporary lens, Nengudi recasts the European fairy tale as a futile fantasy. — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, "For these 20 women artists, ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘Dyketactics’ are just the beginning," 16 Aug. 2019 Following an investigation, Funimation recast Vic Mignogna in Morose Mononokean Season 2. — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, "Anime gets its #MeToo moment in clash between Dallas-area voice actors," 3 Aug. 2019 When not inveighing against Islam and immigrants, ultranationalist gadfly and former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon is working to revive the Committee on the Present Danger, a hawkish Soviet-era group now recast for a confrontation with China. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, "Hong Kong’s protests flare in the shadow of the U.S.-China rivalry," 29 July 2019 Since 2011, the insurgent group based in northern Nigeria has sought to recast that country as a state based on sharia, or Islamic law. — Robert Draper, National Geographic, "Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge," 17 June 2019 In a related and surreptitious campaign, the Guptas were being recast as warmhearted people eager to help the downtrodden. — David Segal, New York Times, "How Bell Pottinger, P.R. Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa," 4 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'recast.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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