Example sentences for: redefinition

How can you use “redefinition” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In generic terms this is manifested in the replacement of woods by bush, once the inadequacy of woods is recognized, and by the redefinition of words like forest and plain.

  • Though promoters of McCain-Feingold contend that this redefinition is consistent with Buckley , what they really mean is that they hope the Supreme Court will be prepared to rethink Buckley . Their theory is that the court will look at the mess of recent elections, and decide that the line it drew two decades ago in Buckley is unworkable.

  • But the larger intellectual revolution undergirding the Internet--the redefinition of the relationship between people and computers, which turned impersonal calculating machines into intimate tools for everyday thought--earns only a few mentions in passing.

  • Answering these questions requires a constant redefinition of the difference between an argument and a threat.

  • Only in this case--unlike in Moynihan's--the redefinition has served to increase, rather than decrease, the required level of government intervention, shifting to the national treasury responsibility for hardships that individuals and localities once stoically assumed.


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