How to Use rewrite history in a Sentence

rewrite history

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  • Who next is going to spend many, many dollars to try to rewrite history that’s set in cement?
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • But the tournament hasn’t had to rewrite history books to be action-packed.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • There are places in the nation where people are trying to rewrite history, to take it away, Ellis said.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 9 July 2023
  • This faction hunts down and destroys treasure to avoid the messy business of having to rewrite history.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • More cynically, vaccine diplomacy was a tool to rewrite history: to change the narrative of China as the source of the plague to the world’s saviour from it.
    — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Russia is using force to try to rewrite history and deny Ukraine its free and independent path.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
  • This act of war is intended to rewrite history and more concerning, upend the balance of power in Europe.
    — Melanie Zanona, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Along with a ragtag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The bill doesn’t rewrite history in the way that the campaigns to protect Confederate memorialization have sometimes sought to.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 10 June 2021
  • President Biden’s attempt to rewrite history suggests Democrats are worried about the fallout.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 9 Apr. 2021
  • These two have the potential to rewrite history together, and Libra would make a great sales person to an Aquarian’s kooky invention or business idea.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But to do so literally is to rewrite history and reauthor events that too many people witnessed and watched happen, and modern baseball has steadfastly declined to do that.
    — Scott Miller, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What is perhaps more significant is that the texts tend to rewrite history and include the political stances of López Obrador’s administration as gospel.
    — Mark Stevenson and Leon RamÍrez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The former president and his supporters are trying to rewrite history.
    — CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In some cases, the government has moved to literally rewrite history.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Democrats have countered with their own campaigns portraying Republicans as extremists who want to ban books and rewrite history.
    — Collin Binkley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And Meredith takes the opportunity to rewrite history and create conflict between Jennie and Jen.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Abramson said that while Trump’s allies can’t rewrite history and erase what happened, their actions would undermine the authority of the Constitution.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • By sweeping the insurrection under the rug and trying to rewrite history, the GOP is willing to ignore serious threats to our democracy in pursuit of partisan power.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • Ancient bronze statues found in prime condition will ''rewrite history,'' Italian researchers say.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Republicans have argued that Democrats are trying to rewrite history.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And the findings could rewrite history beyond the moon because scientists extrapolate from the moon’s craters to determine surface ages on planets, moons and asteroids throughout the solar system.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
  • Leni Riefenstahl The Birth of a Nation uses drama to contaminate, personalize, and rewrite history.
    — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • Pence is trying to rewrite history here because Trump is vulnerable for his lackadaisical approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Since China imposed a security law on Hong Kong last summer that outlaws dissent, authorities have embarked on a campaign to rewrite history.
    — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
  • While roaming this world, defending himself and a variety of fantastic creatures from Aku’s often mechanical enforcers, Jack seeks to return to his own time in order to defeat his nemesis and rewrite history.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Democrats and racial justice advocates accuse Republicans of trying to rewrite history and deprive pupils of a fulfilling curriculum.
    — Bryan Anderson, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
  • The former presidents' supporters are trying to rewrite history.
    — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Robinson said ultimately what the editorial cartoon directed at him verified was that there is a willingness by the press to rewrite history and an intolerance in the press for the existence of black conservatives.
    — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The opposition from Republicans and their attempts to downplay what happened have angered Democrats, who say Republicans are trying to rewrite history and are afraid of what an objective investigation would show.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021

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