How to Use rejigger in a Sentence

rejigger

verb
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  • There wasn’t much that could be done to rejigger the trade deal.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The kit even supplies DIYers with a tool to rejigger the speedometer and odometer to work with the taller tires.
    — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
  • As the days dragged by, researchers at the C.D.C. tried to rejigger the test and make sure that its results were reliable.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The rollercoaster that is the year 2020 has forced us to rejigger our daily routines.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The thinking is that perhaps some of the funding already in law could be rejiggered, though Democrats are sure to howl if the White House proceeds.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • And rejigger your perspective on what makes a good gift.
    — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Thunberg seems to think the world lacks only a little kick in the pants to figure out how to rejigger itself to work on solar and wind.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Step one, however, is AMC’s plan to launch a popcorn business … and Aron’s new plan to rejigger its debt.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The effort to rejigger the story into something new has also opened a few plot holes.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
  • That meant building a quicker, rejiggered supply chain—and that, in turn, played to Syngal’s strengths.
    — Fortune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Never cut holes in your drywall and rejigger your wiring ever again!
    — Wired, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The real question is would Warren’s left-wing populism play on the electoral map Trump has rejiggered?
    — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Fights broke out now and then as people tried to rejigger the archaic network of pipes to their advantage.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • The second draft of the cuts rejiggered the final reductions for many hospitals.
    — Brandon Larrabee, miamiherald, 4 May 2017
  • But over the last year two new studies have radically rejiggered the origin stories of both.
    — Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • This isn’t entirely to play down the significance of Mrs. May’s attempt to rejigger spending on old-age care.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 25 May 2017
  • Takaya said another lottery — open to all Japan residents — would be held by the end of the year as organizers rejigger their plans.
    — Fox News, 5 July 2019
  • The other steadfast friend, the soldier Alcibiades, has been vastly rejiggered in an attempt to give the play a timely hook.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
  • In an attempt to repair the damage, The Mooch, as he is affectionately known on Wall Street, rejiggered the deal and has agreed to sell his stake to his partners ahead of any overall sale, sources said.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
  • The business also has rejiggered its product offerings over the years.
    — Fortune, 10 Aug. 2017
  • But each morning, Lenat would rejigger the system, pushing Eurisko away from the ridiculous and towards the practical.
    — Cade Metz, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2016
  • Sometimes we're held at basecamp while Lana is rewriting and rejiggering scenes.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
  • The Red Wings have tried to rejigger things on the fly for about seven years and that has resulted in one playoff series win and now back to back years getting left out of the playoffs altogether.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Even as a structural tumult rejiggers our approach to and relief from those scenes, shifting the order has a way of shifting the implications.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Even now, Delta has more than its fair share of opportunities to infect new people, replicate, and rejigger its genome.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The whole ecosystem rejiggered itself into a state that hadn’t existed in centuries.
    — Willy Blackmore, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Yet the old codgers of tech—or any industry—that are able to rejigger themselves and get moving again are the more impressive heroes, turning the clichéd aircraft carrier.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 15 June 2018
  • Asian collectors have become such a force in the global art market that the world’s chief auction houses are rejiggering their sales calendars to suit them.
    — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The chasm between their answers reflects the ways in which the accelerant of the internet is rejiggering pop stardom in what feels like something much faster than real time.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 June 2019
  • While some see this move auguring a steeper curve longer term, much will depend on how the Treasury Department rejiggers its lineup of issuance.
    — Emily Barrett, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020

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