How to Use rearrangement in a Sentence
rearrangement
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The rearrangements, from one year to the next, proved dizzying.
— Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2020 -
That said, leaks point to a smaller notch and a rearrangement of the rear cameras.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 17 Aug. 2021 -
Yet again, my younger sister asked about the rearrangement.
— New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021 -
This would only lead to a rearrangement of each team's dance partner.
— Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022 -
The biggest change involves the rearrangement of scenes near the beginning.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2024 -
The state alleges that the rearrangement increased the risk residents would catch Covid-19.
— Ted Mann, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020 -
The civil war, which led to one such rearrangement, started the following month.
— The Economist, 24 May 2018 -
The space between my two front teeth, the one that started all this, looks OK to me, but my crowded bottom teeth resist rearrangement.
— Summer Block, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2019 -
Eventually, the three girls will have their own rooms, prompting the need for the radical rearrangement of space.
— J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019 -
And then, after the final rearrangement of bones, Mr. Raabe stepped back with his rake, assessed the situation, and pushed the button once again as the door to the chamber closed.
— Longreads, 7 June 2018 -
Barring a bowl game meeting or some other scheduling rearrangement, this likely could be the last chance for many of the Spartans to play the Irish.
— Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2017 -
There is a broad swath of the Radical thinking that was dedicated to the power of rearrangement.
— New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020 -
With the changes in function came a rearrangement of furniture and accessories.
— Chris Bynum, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2020 -
Home, a drive-in movie theater, a dingy park and a hospital room are demarcated with the rearrangement of old tires, cinder blocks and spare wood.
— Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023 -
There’s been a lot of rearrangement of companies, mergers.
— Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 11 July 2018 -
In the patient samples, there were just hints of a disorderly rearrangement of the muscle fibers, Conklin said.
— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 4 Sep. 2020 -
Last year, Green Bay restructured the deal to free salary-cap space, and the rearrangement resulted in a $14.76 million restructure bonus.
— Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2022 -
EBay is a test of whether Elliott can help steer a tricky operational challenge, not just nag for a stock-boosting rearrangement of deck chairs.
— Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019 -
For Min, Billy is a complete rearrangement of the universe—uprooting the ego, creating flesh where there once was none.
— Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023 -
West sings, often standing in front of a keyboard, as the guest vocalists provide backup in gospel rearrangements of his songs.
— Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 24 May 2019 -
The new locker room tunnel will also require some rearrangement on the Walk of Champions.
— Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 21 Nov. 2019 -
This rearrangement of books and review will require at least 8,000 hours of labor, for which about five full-time staff members and likely hired part-time staff would be needed.
— Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2023 -
And yet from this abstract rearrangement of tadpole features, normal frogs emerged.
— Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021 -
The researchers identified genome rearrangements in the little skate that were not present in any other vertebrates.
— Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2023 -
Would a rearrangement of boardroom chairs bolster people’s trust in Facebook?
— Owen Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018 -
Alice suggested some small rearrangements at the studio and BAM!
— Kat Jetson, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2019 -
Because his client is prone to 1 A.M. rearrangements of art and furniture, Jones designed many of the elements in the loft to be modular and flexible.
— Sadie Stein, ELLE Decor, 2 Feb. 2017 -
One of these traits is a real oddity: programmed genome rearrangement.
— Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2018 -
Those rearrangements also put specific parts of the genome near or far from landmarks within the nucleus.
— Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018 -
Large-scale rearrangements happen, like fusion or splitting of chromosomes, or swapping a big chunk of one to another.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
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