How to Use reframe in a Sentence

reframe

verb
  • Westworld—*worked with showrunner Scott Smith to reframe the story for the show and craft props and sets that nodded to both the future and the present.
    Marah Eakin, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
  • To turn it around, leaders need to reframe their mindset.
    Job Van Der Voort, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But his wife of 43 years, Jan, helped Gregson reframe his thinking.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But with diligence and care, the band has slowly refined and reframed its legacy.
    Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The goal of a rage hike is not to reframe situations to make our outlook for the week more positive.
    Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Another way to reframe this is, everybody needs to do a health screen.
    Kk Ottesen, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • This project aims to reframe the narrative, to amplify the names and efforts of those who lived it and steer away from the lens of white abolitionists.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The end of his basketball career is reframed as the start of his comedy career.
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That was until Cooper brought it up and reframed the situation for him.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
  • By the same token, consent has become a way to reframe the intimacy work.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps fittingly, the film that reframed the end of the Beatles would bring them together one last time.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In the twenties and thirties, Martland aimed to reframe punch-drunk syndrome as a genuine illness.
    Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This opens the door to a discussion about negative body comments and how girls can reframe their thinking.
    Dr. Katie Hurley, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Over time, in at least some quarters, that telling became more complex, reframed around the struggle to make good on the promises of democracy.
    Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Steal his story—as others have stolen it—and reframe it and rebuild using his structure.
    David Means, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Still, if you’re easily triggered, reframing a comment like this can be hard to do.
    Terri Pous, SELF, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Leaders have long been taught the power of reframing to focus and inspire others.
    Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The United States held out until 1862, when the Civil War reframed the national debate over slavery.
    Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Also, reframe the situation and look at it as a teachable moment.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Are there ways in which environmentalists and others can reframe the debate and talk about their views in a different kind of way?
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2020
  • But for some, this issue can be reframed as a creative challenge, as Australian architect Wayne and partner Anthea have done.
    Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 5 May 2023
  • And as far as the walking tacos' ancestry is concerned, the Midwest lays claim to reframing and renaming the Frito pie into that handheld treat.
    Jen Karetnick, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
  • Healing comes from finding outlets to explore a story and possibly find ways to reframe it.
    Jessica Dulong, CNN, 18 July 2021
  • The key was to reframe each problem as one that could be quickly solved given an appropriate value for some number x, and then prove that just about any x would do.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Her book of the same name, which came out last week, talks about navigating anxiety in the context of reframing ambitions and how to achieve success.
    Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Dear Single: One way to deal with intrusive questions is to basically repeat and reframe the question and toss it back.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Single: One way to deal with intrusive questions is to basically repeat and reframe the question and toss it back.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • That’s such a gorgeous reframing that Samy’s script puts around this story, in addition to it all happening twenty years in the past, and an actor entering the scene to try to chip away at it.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • For Fyre, this worked as a way to reframe a story that had already been wildly covered and metabolized by the media, but the LuLaRoe story feels fresher and less picked-over.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Fans of the film might be perplexed by the narrative’s reframing around Lydia, since the role on-screen, played by Winona Ryder, was more of a supporting part with a quirky curiosity about death.
    Ashley Lee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023

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