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How to use rethink in a sentence

22 example sentences · verb, noun

Rethink means to think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it. Example: “Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.”

Examples of rethink by meaning

verbTo think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it.

  • Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.
  • But that belief is something that needs to be rethought.1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 8
  • But the NCC has been forced to rethink its approach and has already extended the deadline three times, at short notice.2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN

nounThe act of thinking again about something.

  • This business plan of yours looks risky. It needs a rethink.
  • Guardiola needed a rethink and his hand was forced when De Bruyne was forced off in the 58th minute after a check by Rüdiger.2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian
  • There was a complete rethink in 2020, following a review into why costs rose by £100 million in the space of a year.2022 September 21, Howard Johnston, “Network News: HS2's Interchange station to create 1,000 extra jobs”, in RAIL, number 966, page 16

More sentences with rethink

  • For example, re- (“again”) is highly productive (rebuild, rethink), whereas other prefixes are relatively less so.2026 April, Olha Matviyas, Victoria Rokoshevs’ka, Yulia Leshchyshyn, “THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PREFIXES IN ENGLISH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY”, in The…. From the entry productive
  • But the prospect of Harris at the top of the ticket was making him rethink that switch.2024 July 24, Jeremy W. Peters, Audra D. S. Burch, Clyde McGrady, quoting Nathan Gaines, “Black Voters Feel Excited, and Worried, about a…. From the entry give something a shot
  • "So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said.2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283. From the entry criminology
  • "Other minoritarian voices were at work challenging and rethinking other dimensions of Jewishness in the United States."2012, Alan T. Levenson, The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism. From the entry minoritarian
  • I might rethink my cream suit, I say.2025 May 17, Henry Mance, quoting Trinny Woodall, “Lunch with the FT: Trinny Woodall”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The…. From the entry ecru
  • At the height of my teaching career, zenosyne caused me rethink the hours I was spending in the studio.2017, Misty Lown, “The Unconventional Yes”, in One Small Yes: Small Decisions that Lead to Big Results, New York, N.Y.: Morgan James…. From the entry zenosyne
  • In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations, page 3. From the entry body
  • I was forced to rethink my notion of disadvantagedness and to define disadvantage in more than economic terms.1993, Robert Donmoyer, Raylene Kos, At-risk Students: Portraits, Policies, Programs, and Practices, page 43. From the entry disadvantagedness
  • Finally, jobs that are 'widow-makers' should be rethought and restructured.1973, Peter F. Drucker, Management: tasks, responsibilities, practices, published 1999, page 316. From the entry widow-maker
  • But with decades of underinvestment leaving the UK dismally unprepared to handle further heatwaves, is it time to rethink the progressive position on air con?2026 June 29, Phineas Harper, “Not just for rich people: the progressive case for air conditioning”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry air con
  • Every so often a story comes along that causes me to update my priors — that is, to rethink what I thought I knew.2019 September 19, Tyler Cowen, “What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Says About Elite Men”, in Bloomberg. From the entry update one's priors
  • “If KSR raises the bar for nonobviousness, Judge Stein may need to rethink his conclusion that the Plavix patent is not obvious,” said C.2007 January 20, Stephanie Saul, “Patent Trial Near, Bristol-Myers Counts on Resilience”, in New York Times. From the entry nonobviousness
  • People have an easier time bullying furries of color, especially black furries than they do gently telling a white popufur they might want to rethink something they said.2020 December 10, Tonya_Song, Twitter. From the entry popufur
  • That our scholarly conceptualisations of the EU–as a community of law, as a demoicracy, as a post-national sui generis polity–are also in need of a radical rethink.2014, Nicole Scicluna, European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry demoicracy
  • Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force "a rethink" about the way it considered future applications.2026 March 18, Greg Morse, “1996 crash driving freight reforms”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 51. From the entry insist
  • To do so, many of its most vocal advocates are willing to rethink fundamental principles, like the focus on individuals over groups, on which liberal democracies have traditionally been built.2022, Yascha Mounk, The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work. From the entry successor ideology

Meaning of rethink

  1. verb To think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it.
  2. noun The act of thinking again about something.

Full definition of rethink

Questions about rethink in a sentence

How do you use rethink in a sentence?
Rethink is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.”
What is a short sentence with rethink?
“I might rethink my cream suit, I say.”
What does rethink mean?
Rethink means to think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it.

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