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deconstruct

[dee-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌdi kənˈstrʌkt /


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Instead, think only of the 10 to the 53rd power artificial humans who may or may not come into existence on Venus in 10,000 years, when we deconstruct it and turn it into computronium.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Mr. Enrigue feels called upon to deconstruct the genre of the western, even if that means undermining the excellent story in his own novel.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

It was shut down in 2022 and sold to Holtec, which was expected to deconstruct the buildings and store the nuclear waste.

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

“The fact the tariffs have come down is giving retailers pause when they consider a deconstruct, as they have to balance ‘shelf appeal’ against value or cost increases,” Foreman said.

From MarketWatch Jan. 8, 2026

“So let’s deconstruct this Bronx trip,” Mr. Ali announced all of a sudden.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

To illustrate how essential bee pollination is to our food supply, Mr. Hanson deconstructs a Big Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

There’s a breathless monologue in which Mason deconstructs the art of baseball as “the perfect metaphor for hope in a democratic society.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2025

Sam Adams deconstructs how The Lego Movie transformed the way Hollywood blockbusters are built.

From Slate Feb. 7, 2024

A line of machines deconstructs polypropylene plastic from the backing layer of carpets, before creating pellets that can be used in new carpets, car body bumpers and storage containers.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2023

"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

America's basketball fad had been swiftly deconstructed, repurposed.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Influencer Nara Smith, known for her elaborate deconstructed cooking videos, revealed one of the four children she shares with model Lucky Blue Smith is battling cancer.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

To highlight this concern, Colas deconstructed the nominal daily 5-year U.S.

From MarketWatch May 4, 2026

A “hostility to the old Anglo-Saxon establishment,” Mr. Wooldridge writes, has meant traditional values are rejected wholesale and every intellectual discipline is deconstructed.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

When the world order they were constructed within is deconstructing in dramatic fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

A small team in the U.S. military’s research and engineering office put together plans to build an attack drone based on deconstructing a Shahed the military had recovered from Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

In those initial steps of self-definition, deconstructing the political and religious maps I’d grown up with, I had feared my parents’ disappointment.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2024

Ms Beer said her hearing loss and the music she created as a result of it was helping to raise awareness of environmental issues, as well as deconstructing stereotypes about disability.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2024

My artwork isn’t evolving, it’s deconstructing, and I don’t know why.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman



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