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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
Say Nothing leaves so much of the British and Protestant aggression Keefe’s book so carefully reconstructs on the cutting-room floor.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
Were the returning sets easy to reconstruct, or was there anything tricky about recreating things like the dorm room and Red Light/Green Light?
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
April After another surgery to reconstruct her skull, Skye is released from the hospital, months ahead of schedule.
—Elise Wrabetz, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2024
Though fire consumed the fourth-century original in 1823, the basilica was immediately — and faithfully — reconstructed on its original footprint beside via Ostiense (a half-hour bus ride south of the center).
—David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
Were the returning sets easy to reconstruct, or was there anything tricky about recreating things like the dorm room and Red Light/Green Light?
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
April After another surgery to reconstruct her skull, Skye is released from the hospital, months ahead of schedule.
—Elise Wrabetz, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2024
Though fire consumed the fourth-century original in 1823, the basilica was immediately — and faithfully — reconstructed on its original footprint beside via Ostiense (a half-hour bus ride south of the center).
—David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Newsom suggested that the rebuilding efforts also would be tied to the Olympics, which Los Angeles will host in 2028.Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
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Landmark California environmental laws will be suspended for wildfire victims seeking to rebuild their homes and businesses, according to an executive order signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 12 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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In the Bundesliga, there’s considerable anti-Leipzig sentiment, given the brand commercially overhauled the defunct lower league team SSV Markranstädt into one of the land’s best-performing clubs, circumventing the 50+1 fan ownership rule.Henry Flynn, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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In October, Brittany shared a game-day snap in which the duo re-created one of their favorite poses from last season.Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 14 Jan. 2025
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Researchers would now be able to quickly re-create the effects of many different atomic lattices in a single device and find out exactly what electrons are capable of.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
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Part of its role was to rehabilitate drug addicts using a naval regimen—a noble yet undignified service for a generation-defining yacht.Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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After the death in 1971 of Lin Biao, one of Mao’s key lieutenants, Hu was allowed to return to Beijing but was not fully rehabilitated into the ranks of the party elite.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025
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By devoting more energy and resources to countering all forms of Islamic terrorism and focusing less on reinventing the term terrorism to broaden its meaning.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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The franchise has been reinvented countless times over the last 40 years and is just now reaching what seems to be a second apex.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
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Trump, who had fought to keep the report secret, criticized the findings on Truth Social and repeated false claims about the House committee that investigated Jan. 6. — CNBC’s Hakyung Kim, Annika Kim Constantino, Salvador Rodriguez, Gabrielle Fonrouge and NBC News contributed to this report.Michele Luhn, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ephron’s comment was based on the opinion that marketers were helping to create ad avoidance with strategies that inundated persons with repeating the same ads over and over again.Brad Adgate, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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For this milestone year, the swan is reimagined in a new design that pairs it with its mirror image, their necks intertwined to form a heart.Ty Gaskins, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
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Mexican Institute of Sound, helmed by Camilo Lara, reimagines this song with an innovative twist.Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Reconstruct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruct. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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