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The director decided to recast the movie with unknowns.
When she quit the movie, I was recast in the leading role.
The director recast some of the actors in the play.
You should recast the last sentence in your essay to make it clearer.
He recast his political image to fit the times.
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An August Variety report indicated that the film's sales hinged on Phoenix's casting, and that his role reportedly could not be recast.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2024
Indeed, Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have taken one of the rarest complications to emerge out of the mechanical watch revival of the 1980s and ’90s and recast it as a tribute to Star Trek.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2024
With the brisk pace of a thriller, the film looks at how West German officials who had hoped to recast their country’s image at a time when the horrors of World War II remained vivid in the public imagination, instead bungled their response to the attacks — with tragic results.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
The role was later recast with Willa Holland taking an older version of Kaitlin in the third and fourth seasons.
—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2024
Indeed, Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have taken one of the rarest complications to emerge out of the mechanical watch revival of the 1980s and ’90s and recast it as a tribute to Star Trek.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2024
With the brisk pace of a thriller, the film looks at how West German officials who had hoped to recast their country’s image at a time when the horrors of World War II remained vivid in the public imagination, instead bungled their response to the attacks — with tragic results.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
The role was later recast with Willa Holland taking an older version of Kaitlin in the third and fourth seasons.
—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
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recast
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re·cast
(ˈ)rē-ˈkast 
recast; recasting
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