The amended language essentially rewrites the rule as a test, rather than a definition, for relevance:

The decision, he said, essentially rewrote a state statute setting a Nov. 14 deadline for canvassers to report their totals.

Adding completely new elements to DNA and proteins is essentially rewriting the genetic code, the fundamental language of life.

Mr. Fahle said that to retrofit a site, designers must essentially rewrite the code of tens of thousands of pages.

Despite his prolific writing, he was criticized for essentially rewriting the same articles over and over.

But that did not stop Senator Leahy from slipping a seven-word sentence into a long, bureaucratic-laden reauthorization bill and essentially rewriting the topography of North America.

Meyerhold envisioned a "theater of spectacle" in which the primary creator is the director, whose design and staging essentially rewrite the play.

Now, because of investigations into corporate espionage by several Boeing workers, Lockheed gets the chance to undo its stagnation, to essentially rewrite the recent history of its space program.

I built a whole new UI engine underneath it and essentially rewrote it from scratch and added a whole bunch of really cool new technology.

But Hughes must have realized his mistake, because the next year he essentially rewrote it as Some Kind of Wonderful .