Thesaurus results for RETHOUGHT

rethought

verb

past tense of rethink

as in reconsidered

to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal since my efforts to solve this problem aren't working, I need to rethink my approach

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Recent Examples of rethought Neil said Regal has rethought the footprint of many of its locations, bar and lounge offerings have been revamped, and renovations have been made at 50 theaters with 300 locations adding arcades. —

Brian Welk, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2026 Supply chains are being rethought. —

Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 17 Mar. 2026 Foreign materials fueled American global power, but also raised tricky questions about access to resources and about sovereignty, just as the old European imperial order was being rethought. —

Thomas Robertson, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026 This all might sound like some of the country’s most prominent Republicans have rethought their views on the Second Amendment. —

Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Jan. 2026 Entire industries are being rethought, not gradually, but all at once. —

Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026 As vehicles move toward higher levels of automation, interior layouts are being rethought. —

Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026 Finding the industry’s reservation system to be archaic, Kokonas rethought its relationship to dining out. —

Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2025 On the whole, the provisions the law provides to disincentivize offshoring and promote reshoring need to be rethought, the lawmakers wrote. —

Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025

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Singleton initially had his sights set on this month’s NFL draft, but reconsidered.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Nearly a decade later, taking its energy security and net-zero goals into consideration, the Southeast Asian country reconsidered its decision to halt work at the Ninh Thuan site.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026