How to Use revise in a Sentence

revise

verb
Definition of revisenext
Synonyms for revisenext
  • We have to revise our plans because of the delays.
  • I would like to revise my estimate.
  • And the bad news for the world was that there wasn’t much to revise.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, the SEC didn’t revise the rule that permits the plans.
    — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • This inspired the solons to revise and strengthen the law in 2012.
    — Tom Condon, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The next day, the ministry revised the figure down to 471.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Trump says he was fired — is forced to revise his draft.
    — Zeke Miller, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The push to revise prices could have a far-reaching impact.
    — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 5 July 2019
  • The College Board did revise its treatment of both of these ideas.
    — Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The diplomats who wrote the road map now say it must be revised with these dangers in mind.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In a new twist just this week, Collins revised his story yet again.
    — Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The number of hostages has been revised downward to reflect those found dead.
    — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • It was revised the next year with a new plan to sell naloxone, the lawsuits allege.
    — Kristen Gelineau, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2019
  • But the study argues those standards should be revised.
    — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 28 June 2017
  • Eventually, the creative team met to point out what to revise and how to do it.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The bills would revise how attendance is linked to funding.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The city’s master plan was revised to include a 2-million-square-foot business park on the site.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Fox wants to save a version of herself that’s already been revised.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 June 2018
  • In the years after the show’s failure to launch, George Furth’s book got revised, and Sondheim devotees took up its cause.
    — Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The bloc aims to revise the list of countries allowed to enter every two weeks.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
  • That night, he was supposed to be revising for his A-levels.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 8 Apr. 2019
  • Posts that are edited will have a little icon next to the timestamp showing that they’ve been revised.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The statistics will be revised once the analysis is done.
    — Beth J. Harpaz, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The flurry of action by states to adopt new election laws or revise them is not new, experts said.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Those goals meant months of revising and perfecting the shades that ended up in the palette.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Each time, Congress was forced to back down and revise its position.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Muir has revised his offense this season with more shifts.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Some banks have revised their policies in recent years.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Some home buyers didn’t revise their price ranges downward as rates climbed.
    — cleveland, 2 July 2022
  • The school started a football team, revised its mission and laid off faculty and staff to cut costs.
    — Robert Massa, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2019

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