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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
Serialization is a coding process that translates data structures and object states into formats that can be stored or transmitted and then reconstructed later.
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 July 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
To not start with some sort of prior reality in which all stuff exists, but rather reconstruct the history of the universe from within, so to speak.
—Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2025
Archaeologists are used to reconstructing now-invisible phenomena like climate.
—Raven Garvey, Space.com, 24 July 2025
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 July 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
To not start with some sort of prior reality in which all stuff exists, but rather reconstruct the history of the universe from within, so to speak.
—Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2025
Archaeologists are used to reconstructing now-invisible phenomena like climate.
—Raven Garvey, Space.com, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstruct
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Yedioth Ahronoth cited intelligence findings that Beijing may be helping Tehran rebuild missile capabilities damaged in the recent June war.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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The 50-acre water park in Federal Heights will close Calypso Cove on Monday, Aug. 25, and rebuild it for future seasons.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
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Nathan Click, Newsom’s campaign spokesperson, pointed towards Newsom’s support in July 2001 of a local San Francisco charter amendment, Proposition G, overhauling local redistricting and ensuring that the process reflected census population changes and neighborhood diversity.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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In its last set of rights deals struck for a 11-year period starting with the 2022 season, the NFL won the right to overhaul its contracts and seek better terms after 2029.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Farahani’s commercial features Giganto and re-creates the iconic 1961 comic No. 1 cover.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 July 2025
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On Saturday, San Diego’s New Fortune Theatre re-created this cultural happening at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Point Loma.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 July 2025
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The new diverging diamond interchange proposed in Waukesha County to rehabilitate one of the oldest interchanges on the Interstate 94 system is estimated to cost about $7.9 million, officials say.—
Liliana Fannin,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The bears were brought to the Wildlife Center, which is one of three centers licensed to rehabilitate wild black bears in the state, to receive medical treatment and diagnosis, Thompson said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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Community colleges occupy a similar space: quietly reinventing how education aligns with workforce evolution.—
Alex Goryachev,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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This was almost a decade before Marciano would reinvent himself in 2010 with the seminal record Marcberg.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
8 Aug. 2025
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Because of rain and saturated fields, Monday games were postponed and the final was pushed back a day. Lake Mary, seeking to repeat its 2024 Little League World Series championship, is 3-0 in region play, including a 14-0 five-inning win against Irmo (3-1) on Sunday.—
Steve Gorches,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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Over and over, a silent slogan was repeated in shaky paint and marker across bare skin, homemade signs and shirts: nuestra existencia es resistencia — that is, to merely exist is a form of defiance.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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The key lies in reimagining compliance not as a constraint, but as a tool for growth.—
Leo Patching,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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In Los Angeles, Rabbi Hannah Jensen, who helps lead the progressive congregation Ikar, invoked the traditional Three Weeks of mourning on the Jewish calendar — and reimagined them as an extended period of civic grief for her city.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Reconstruct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruct. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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