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Six example sentences with revise, each labelled with its topic.
After the third replication failed, the team revised its estimate downward and published a correction the same month.
Science
The bureau revises its growth figures twice, because the first release rests on partial returns from small firms.
Economics
New tree-ring data forced scholars to revise the settlement's founding date by nearly two hundred years.
History
Analysts had to revise their forecasts twice in a month as the retailer kept reporting weaker sales than expected.
Finance
Her editor's notes made her revise the ending, since a reader's letter had shown the timeline could not work.
Literature
After the census figures arrived, the committee agreed to revise the district map it had approved only a month earlier.
Politics
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Found in 5 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
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