rebuild
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"If today proves anything, it's that we need to update our air traffic control system & rebuild our airport infrastructure."
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
"Our findings suggest we may also be able to actively rebuild gut health and the microbiome while not making IBS symptoms worse. That's an important step forward."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
She apologised to both HIS and the affected staff, and took steps "intended to rebuild trust".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Wendy’s will also try to rebuild its menu with a focus on fresher and higher-quality ingredients for its main menu items.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Maybe his friendship with Esperanza would remain rocky, or maybe this was their chance to rebuild.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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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
“Nothing goes away,” the omniscient narrator observes of a ruined cottage that Tomás rebuilds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The utility has said that burying the wires as the town rebuilds thousands of homes destroyed in the fire will make the electrical grid safer and more reliable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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
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When the house on Third and Cumberland was burnt, he rebuilded it, and the owners charged him such rent he had to move.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration
Once, there at the beginning of the nineties, Grand Trunk made tentative offers for the control of the rebuilded property.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
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
He had built new bridges by the dozens; purchased and rebuilded cars and locomotives by the hundreds.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
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
The coping stones were later returned and the "extremely grateful" residents rebuilt the wall.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The same defensive structure was rebuilt, a hamlet or farm was established on a nearby hilltop, and people were buried in a cemetery between the two areas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Betsey Johnson has taken her newly rebuilt Hidden Hills, Calif., home off the market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 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
Miss Whitlaws land might be worth something once the city was rebuilt, but that meant holding on to it for quite a while.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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The idea is to ensure that the plan focuses on “ordinary homeowners and not on rebuilding mansions,” according to the brief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
Rather than rebuilding healthy muscle, the damaged tissue accumulated fat and scar tissue, a form of tissue replacement that cannot restore normal muscle function.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
The 39-year-old, who has worked here half his life, is dwarfed by the mangled ruins and daunted by the challenge of rebuilding the plant.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The uncertainty is preventing them from rebuilding their herds, prolonging the shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Marsha and Glen had found construction work and roofing jobs at the start of the summer, but now it would be weeks before rebuilding jobs would be available.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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