reconstruction

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Recent Examples of reconstruction English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026 The World Bank estimates that reconstruction efforts from that war will cost eleven billion dollars. Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026 The pool's reconstruction, however, still appears to have a long way to go. Mike Stunson, USA Today, 20 May 2026 Another bridge that would see reconstruction is Oaklawn Bridge, near the McCrorey Heights neighborhood. Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 5 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for reconstruction
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Noun
  • The first prompt becomes the rough cut, while the following prompts become the revision cycle.
    Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The department said the initial reading was cut because of downward revisions to consumer spending and investment.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Sipper talked about how her company trains with scalar field outputs of simulation data, and the meshes of objects.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Actor Eric Stonestreet showed up to cheer on Mahomes as the three men duked it out in the racing simulation game.
    Lisa Gutierrez May 21, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • The same is true for remodeling topics, which only make the news when products start endangering lives and properties.
    Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Construction and remodeling companies can also be guilty of overbilling for their work and using inflated invoices.
    Meily Perez, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • The early retail looks reveal a faithful re-creation of the 2006 style with only minor tweaks made to the upcoming release.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 23 May 2026
  • Various outbuildings now house a small screening room, where clips from a documentary on Herriot’s life play, as well as a re-creation of the TV studio and set on which the 1978 television series was filmed.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Friends since first grade and bandmates since high school, the two 32-year-old Rogers Park natives and founding members of the then-dormant Chicago indie-rock band Twin Peaks weren’t at the Pilsen venue scouting locations for a potential reformation.
    Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Historically, the superintendent has not had sufficient experience in K-12 classrooms to improve efficiency, center equity and center hands-on policy reformation.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • So instead of a series of songs that arc and resolve in miniature, Paradessence is composed of moments.
    Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026
  • Embark on a journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories and soundscapes, installations and projections, costumes and tapestries, movie miniatures and speculative artefacts.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Yet as public-sector budgets come under fiscal pressure the world over, festivals in any place of the world are seeking an industrial reconversion from one-off events to year-round hubs enrolling their brands – and Clermont Ferrand’s is very large – to amplify their value.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 30 May 2025
  • Maenza and Haider met for the first time in person at a reception following an ecumenical prayer service lamenting the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 July 2021
Noun
  • Reaper Man, a reworking of the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, is among the first Discworld novels to incorporate real pathos alongside the gags.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
  • Andreï Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, a reworking of Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife as an immaculate domestic thriller set against contemporary Russia, took Cannes’ runner-up prize, the Grand Prix.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026

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“Reconstruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruction. Accessed 30 May. 2026.

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