rebuild
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He also said watching his parents rebuild after fleeing communist Vietnam taught him the value of stretching a dollar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He said: "We will rebuild a system of comprehensive education in this country, with parity between academic and technical."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
We should rebuild our defense production capacity and rethink the balance between small numbers of expensive high-tech weapons and larger numbers of simpler, cheaper ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He had embarked on that trip to get funds to rebuild his family’s home after an earthquake in 2016, said his mother, Elena Véliz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a week he can dismantle and rebuild it with his eyes closed.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Rebels led by HTS overthrew long-time Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, with the group's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa taking over as president as the country rebuilds after more than 13 years of civil war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 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
The findings support a broader model in which fresh magma gradually enters and rebuilds reservoirs beneath giant calderas after major eruptions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 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
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Nevertheless, 'In the Market-Place of Bruges stands the Belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town.'
From Bruges and West Flanders by Amédée Forestier
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
What will it avail to these old bones if the Temple be rebuilded, and I die without placing my hands on the eyelids of my boy and blessing him in Thy name?
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
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
The city destroyed by fire may be rebuilded as before.
From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell
In another post, he expressed his wish for "an independent Quebec, a rebuilt Haiti".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
It earned plaudits from Questlove and Snoop Dogg, won a Grammy for progressive R&B album, and hung on as the record business imploded and rebuilt in the streaming era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
PET contains carbon-rich molecules that can potentially be broken apart and rebuilt into useful compounds, including components that can ultimately become proteins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Leclerc was unhurt and the race was stopped while the marshals rebuilt the barriers at the famous final corner.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
I prayed for my school to remain open and for the bombed-out schools to be rebuilt.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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Councilmember Traci Park, who led the initiative, called it the “least we can do as the community continues to recover,” adding that many are forced to sell because of lack of insurance or rebuilding costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Solmssen’s novel, originally published in 1971, a European roundtable meant to promote postwar rebuilding gets co-opted by realpolitik.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
But he said the rebuilding efforts could also provide spiritual sustenance.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
ABT-263 also increased the activity of genes involved in rebuilding damaged tissue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
And then they decided to open up the lawn for the interfaith carnival and raise funds for rebuilding.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
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