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"recasts" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb which means to cast or shape something again or differently. Example sentence: The sculptor recast the clay figure to give it a more dynamic shape.
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Plural of recast
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Discard notions of dimly-lit, smoke and truant-filled rooms: the NVA recasts the once-grotty arcade as a bright, breezy sequence of rooms, equal parts art gallery, museum exhibit and educational centre.
The New Labour term for this is "social exclusion", but it merely recasts an old problem in different language.Whatever the problem is called, the government is not ignoring it.
The biggest wave of recasts is due to happen in 2010 and 2011.
More recently "Pieces of Intelligence: the Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld", by Hart Seely, mockingly recasts in blank verse some of the defence secretary's turns of phrase.Now the Plain English Campaign, a British group that lobbies for clearer use of language, has given Mr Rumsfeld the "Foot in Mouth Award" for the most baffling comment by a public figure.
He recasts the West's message to Russian oligarchs wanting to immigrate: "give me your rich, your sated, yearning to breathe safe".
In his application of their techniques to the future, Mr Kohn gives a depth to the scenarios of which he speaks that the numbers and maps of more mundane climate prognostication can never match.In the process of immersing the reader in a fully realised set of tomorrows, Mr Kohn also recasts his perception of today.
The theme of the sultan, now somewhat less foreboding, introduces the agitated finale, "Festival at Baghdad; the Sea; the Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior," which revisits and recasts many of the themes from the preceding movements.
On a literary level, Springsteen often recasts biblical figures and stories into the American landscape.
It is not even as if the rapid re-writing of history does her any favours, for it recasts her as a plaster saint rather than a real woman with faults and virtues; in between the encomiums, Diana herself is in danger of getting lost.
But Armstrong recasts her as a truth-teller who was the reason he came back to the sport clean in 2009 – a statement that also directly contradicts evidence found in the Usada investigation.
Oyeyemi, in her fifth novel, recasts the story of Snow White as a tale of racial conflict that… Fosse, by Sam Wasson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
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