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as in rebuilds
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 re-creates
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 reconstructs
Using ancestral sequence reconstruction, which reconstructs ancient proteins from modern genetic data, the team resurrected cannabinoid-producing enzymes from early cannabis ancestors.
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New Atlas, 10 Jan. 2026
The system reconstructs one-to-one digital twins of logistics hubs, inspection sites, and production lines.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
Drawing on archival documents, Williams reconstructs Morrison’s audacious efforts to carve a space for herself in the publishing world while cultivating a new generation of Black writers.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The Perfect Neighbor reconstructs the events leading up to and immediately following the shooting, largely via police body camera footage.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Written and directed by Pérez Rial, the film reconstructs the exile of Sosa, who was arrested during a 1978 concert in La Plata and later forced to flee Argentina’s dictatorship.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
The drama reconstructs the events surrounding the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab in January 2024.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
As for Cohen’s next novel, Beautiful Losers, which was set in an apartment in Montreal as a bereaved and lust‑tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead, there was a sharp divide of opinion internally at Viking.
—Paul Slovak
september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Using almost exclusively English-language sources plus interviews (including with Empress Farah, who is still living), Anderson reconstructs the bumblings that upended Iran.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
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The company is also doing fire rebuilds in Los Angeles.—
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This decision protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health.—
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In a wordless visual dialogue, the director recreates Poland’s history from the World War I to the present day.—
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The film recreates the circumstances that surrounded Hind Rajab’s actual killing in January 2024, in which Red Crescent volunteers struggled to send an ambulance to rescue the child, who was trapped under fire in Gaza.—
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Sumrall aimed to overhauls a Gators’ offensive line expected to be one of the nation’s best, but too often was inconsistent.—
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Laurie Orlando, who has supervised talent recruitment and strategy at CBS News for nearly a decade, is leaving the Paramount Skydance operation — the latest of the news division’s senior executives to exit as the parent company overhauls its operations under an iconoclastic new editor in chief.—
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Creator-writer David Farr reinvents the thriller with Pine now living as Alex Goodwin, a low-level MI6 officer running a quiet surveillance unit in London.—
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Each was conceived by Francis Kurkdjian, Dior’s perfume creation director, and reinvents the brand’s signature flowers of rose, jasmine and iris.—
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In total, the Ventana Wildlife Society — a group that traps, breeds and rehabilitates the vultures for release into the wild — has tracked 30 different condors that took multiple trips to parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties sometime in the past two years.—
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While Madea rehabilitates her co-prisoners, her family on the outside struggles with the usual family issues.—
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The Tribune repeats his charge that AIPAC influenced local Orthodox rabbis to pressure Leon to drop out of the race.—
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The process repeats itself over and over again.—
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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 Savannah Bananas are the flagship team of Banana Ball, a league founded in 2023 that reimagines baseball as a high-energy, fan-first spectacle.—
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Directed by two-time Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold, the play revisits the true story of a Brooklyn bank robbery that spiraled out of control and transfixed the nation.—
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The documentary not only revisits the events that shocked a nation but also spotlights Elizabeth’s journey of healing and her ongoing mission to inspire and protect others.—
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“Reconstructs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstructs. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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