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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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VERB
restore
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Most important, she accepts the need for a gradual transition and the need to rebuild the country’s courts and electoral institutions before setting an election date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Eisenhower and America helped rebuild the world after World War II, understanding that to survive in the nuclear age, the old, primitive ways were just too dangerous.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Together, the seismic observations and chemical evidence help researchers develop a clearer picture of how a giant volcanic system can gradually rebuild its underground magma supply following a massive eruption.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

He added: "I would like to be left in peace now to rebuild my life and spend time with my family."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

‘The Gate is destroyed,’ said Imrahil, ‘and where now is the skill to rebuild it and set it up anew?’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

New blood vessel growth is equally important because healing tissue needs a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients as it rebuilds itself.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

In a drive-by survey of a portion of Altadena she identified 24 prefab projects, or about 1 out of 9 rebuilds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

This, she says, will be followed by a broader recovery among oil and gas service providers as industry activity rebuilds through 2027-2028.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

For we look to the bed as a refuge from our troubles, as a sanctuary wherein is rebuilded our strength.

From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson

In them days Commandments were mostly done in gilt letters on a black ground, and that's how they were out where I say, before the owld church was rebuilded.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

This castle, since rebuilded, you, my children, are of course familiar with, for you were all born here.

From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea

Once more the vast dome of heaven became the roof of my house, and within the house was rebuilded that which my soul called beautiful.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

Only thus are the walls broken down rebuilded.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

This one is very real: a kind of Vision 2.0, rebuilt by the intelligence agency tasked with saving the New Jersey town Wanda took hostage to shore up her classic family sitcom simulation.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

After losing their Solano County home to wildfire in 2020, the couple rebuilt with a steel fence, an aluminum patio pergola and a roughly 10-foot concrete and rock buffer around their new house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The monochromatic version of the former Avenger had been rebuilt without his memories to be a sentient weapon, but during a showdown with his magically created double, he regained them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

These findings do not establish that damaged cartilage was rebuilt or that arthritis progression can be permanently stopped.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

A long time ago, Dad took apart a fire escape—a real fire escape, from a building that his office was demolishing—and he rebuilt the bottom level of it inside my bedroom.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

But the book is the first time they’re breaking down the nitty-gritty details of rebuilding their marriage after it nearly fell apart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

American Jarrell Miller remains highly ranked, while compatriots Jared Anderson and Richard Torrez Jr, an Olympic silver medallist, are rebuilding.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

It requires mortgage lenders that hold insurance proceeds during rebuilding to pay at least 2% annual simple interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

"The task ahead is to move from coping to rebuilding, restoring fiscal space, and rebuilding supply-side resilience."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Pachakuti gave command of the military to his son Thupa Inka in 1463 and turned his attention to totally rebuilding Qosqo in imperial style, in the process becoming one of history’s great urban planners.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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