Sample Sentences for
revise
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    I have a rough plan, but I want to talk with others on the team and revise it.
    revise = improve or change
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    How can we revise order fulfillment to be more efficient?
    revise = improve
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    They revised their estimates of last year's growth.
    revised = changed
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    This is the second revision of my term paper, but I want to get a good night's sleep and look at it one more time.
    revision = changed version
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Do you like my revisions?
    revisions = changes
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    "No," I said, and then revised. "Well, maybe I wouldn't go so far as no."  (source)
    revised = changed what was said
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    I revise my suicide plan to slow death by morphling.  (source)
    revise = change
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    I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting.  (source)
    revising = changing
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    Now he revises that plan to match his strengths with a path of least resistance.†  (source)
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    And here is the revised DNA strand, repaired by the computer.  (source)
    revised = changed
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    The last thing I remember is that I was thinking about the revision I needed to do for the next day.  (source)
    revision = a change; or a changed version
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    Tiny had returned it to her in case she wanted to revise it.  (source)
    revise = change
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    Jack Kerouac presents himself as a free spirit performing automatic writing, but there's a lot of evidence that this Ivy Leaguer (Columbia) did a lot of revising and polishing—and reading of quest tales—before his manuscript of On the Road (1957) got typed on one long roll of paper.  (source)
    revising = editing
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