reconstruction
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Benson found out at 21 that she had the mutation, too, and underwent a double mastectomy and reconstruction last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Bokhsam, the local reconstruction official, said he lost more than 15 family members: his sister, her husband, and their four children, along with other relatives.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
"We have fully processed the specimen and, based on the newly acquired information, created a 3D reconstruction that is available online," says Daniel Tröger from the University of Jena.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
The road is Highway 1 in Big Sur, which reopened in January after three years of repair and reconstruction following a pair of landslides.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
In Erickson’s hypothetical reconstruction, as many as a million people may have walked the causeways of eastern Bolivia in their long cotton tunics, heavy ornaments dangling from their wrists and necks.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing reconstruction
Chapter 18: The Reconstruction Era
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Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech (1940)
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Chapter 5, Sections 1–4
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