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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 re-create
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
Musical sleuths have leaned on Bach’s corpus to reconstruct the work ever since.
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Since 2014, the Russian military has opened several military bases in the Arctic and worked on reconstructing airfields.
—Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
However, Kinne understands things must change, which is why Texas State has already begun to reconstruct itself for this fall.
—Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 6 Jan. 2026
Finish the season playing your best basketball with a group that is getting great play from Donovan Mitchell while he is surrounded by talent that will be hard to reconstruct after the spring.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
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According to a December Los Angeles Times analysis, fewer than 14 percent of homes destroyed in the Palisades have received permits to rebuild.—
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Vinjamoori explains that while general recommendations for older adults often start lower, needs increase significantly if a person is active, recovering from illness, or trying to rebuild strength.—
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Now, a team of researchers in China has crossed this barrier by producing a miniature womb on a chip that faithfully recreates how human embryos attach to and burrow into the uterine lining.—
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More specifically, Bieber recreated a photograph of her predecessor sitting in a bureau painting her toenails from all the way back in 2001.—
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The two countries signed dozens of bilateral agreements, including in a 20-year cooperation deal to repair and overhaul Venezuelan refineries and enhance military relations.—
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Officials also pledged to overhaul the country’s foreign exchange subsidies system to bring direct support for consumers, shifting away from subsidizing importers, which have long been criticized as vulnerable to corruption.—
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But now the smallest cosmopolitan city in the world—as the community of 58,000 inhabitants describes itself—is reinventing itself.—
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Here's how eight top corporate leaders navigated change to reinvent their companies.—
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There’s something deeply troubling about watching a woman who has allegedly experienced abuse turn around and help abusers rehabilitate their images.—
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ZooTampa, along with Florida Fish and Wildlife and the University of Florida Marine Rescue, worked to rehabilitate her.—
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Running backs with 300-plus touches the previous season don’t generally repeat that volume the following season.—
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He was also asked to repeat back numbers, complete basic math equations, and memorize a collection of words that were revisited at the end of the test.—
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Produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française, the British iteration of the show reimagines and expands on the 2025 Paris presentation with more than 700 objects, including original storyboards, notebooks, photographs, puppets, models, sketches and costumes from his movies.—
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The pair also collaborated on the PEACEMINUSONE jewelry collection, which reimagined G-DRAGON's iconic daisy motif.—
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At this exclusive, high-energy event, the world’s most innovative leaders will convene to explore how AI, humanity, and strategy converge to redefine, again, the future of work.—
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That means uprooting institutionalized callousness and redefining what counts as efficiency, innovation and value.—
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“Reconstruct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruct. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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