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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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VERB
restore
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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

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

“I expect the work to restore production, rebuild inventories and strengthen energy security will drive multiyear demand growth for oilfield services.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Caruso has played a prominent role in helping rebuild Pacific Palisades and Altadena following the fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Even though the buildings are in the process of being rebuilt, Zlata’s parents feel like it will take a long time to rebuild relations.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

Emergency orders allow “like-for-like” replacements; some residents are moving toward all-electric home rebuilds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 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

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

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

Within my own calm mirror a beautiful world had seen itself rebuilded.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Possessed of huge drive, vast wealth and immense personal charm, Archer bounced back from disaster and, more than once, rebuilt a shattered life.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

I went back into my rebuilt igloo and gave the evening a lot of thought.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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

“Given elevated debt, rising sovereign yields, and pressing spending needs, a renewed focus on rebuilding fiscal space is increasingly urgent,” it added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Newport Beach said crews were rebuilding berms, opening tide valves and running pumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

He had worked four-day weeks for twenty years, spending long weekends with his family, sailing or iceboating on Bellport Bay and rebuilding cars.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times


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