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as in to rebuild
to build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed
After the fire they had to completely reconstruct the building from the ground up.
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as in to recreate
to find out and describe or show the way something (such as an event or series of events) happened
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Recent Examples of reconstruct
The emergence of a new generation of pragmatic consumers is not merely changing the retail ecosystem but is reconstructing the DNA of market interactions.
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Thai Son Nguyen, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The quality of the tracks should make such calculations easier and help reconstruct the world in which these dinosaurs roamed.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
All in all, the team was able to reconstruct the reaction pathways and gain critical insights into the step-by-step processes leading to oxygen formation from these two starting materials.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
For the latest study, the researchers reconstructed a complete set of the SiS board game in order to analyze the board and each piece thoroughly.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Thai Son Nguyen, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The quality of the tracks should make such calculations easier and help reconstruct the world in which these dinosaurs roamed.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
All in all, the team was able to reconstruct the reaction pathways and gain critical insights into the step-by-step processes leading to oxygen formation from these two starting materials.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
For the latest study, the researchers reconstructed a complete set of the SiS board game in order to analyze the board and each piece thoroughly.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstruct
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For leaders and marketers, this effect translates to rebuilding after setbacks, restoring trust and reigniting momentum.—
Jimi Gibson,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Her cousins questioned whether an uncle would live to see his house rebuilt.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Squad overhaul for the future is clearly happening.—
David Ornstein,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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Metro Council members filed legislation this week to overhaul the city's policy for using video footage captured by private businesses and property owners.—
Nate Rau,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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Yet all of this fancy technology is often tuned toward the purpose of re-creating the past.—
Yussef Cole,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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That expansion is clearest in the film’s ending, which re-creates but also reframes Ellen’s fatal sacrifice.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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For the educators, that creates an amusing challenge: The Sunny gang isn’t a pack of wayward teenagers waiting for an understanding mentor to show them the light, and their moral failures can’t be rehabilitated with a pep talk.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Auditors also noted the social and educational efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and ready them to re-enter society.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2025
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Lukas Reichel might have to reinvent himself as something like the next Michael Frolík to have a long career in Chicago.—
Mark Lazerus,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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The songs have not been reinvented or seemingly dabbled with.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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That rhythm begins with hunger, followed by eating until satiation, fully digesting the meal, and then repeating the cycle starting with hunger.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
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Importantly, the exact pattern of floor movements – including their amplitude and speed – can be repeated for each assessment session.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
25 Jan. 2025
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The company was founded on the premise of reinventing the rent-to-own model, but can something like this really be reimagined?—
Ilona Limonta-Volkova,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Singh, a former Google software engineer and head of product at Vogue, is joining Infinite Reality as chief innovation officer, and will help to reimagine how brands connect online with consumers.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Reconstruct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruct. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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