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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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“Since the United States took Maduro on Jan. 3, it has been very deliberate, very conscious about trying to reconstruct Venezuela’s security capacity,” said Polga-Hecimovich.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

BBC Verify has used air traffic control audio and flight tracking data to reconstruct the final moments before the plane crashed.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Using these fragments, the scientists were able to partially reconstruct the damaged area.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

By measuring changes in radiocarbon concentrations across successive tree rings, scientists can reconstruct how solar activity varied long before modern instruments existed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

If the larger picture of ancient forager life is hard to reconstruct, particular events are largely irretrievable.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

The findings come from a study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, which reconstructs the ancient marine ecosystem preserved in Colombia’s Paja Formation.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025

The narrative she reconstructs begins in Berlin, where Otto and Friedel lived with their four children before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

A helpful digital “fly through” video reconstructs the vast fortress, elaborately decorated with brightly colored, often patterned murals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

In three-and-a-half hours and for less than $10 million, Corbet reconstructs post-war America from the ground up, proving his sweeping artistic vision to be just as impressive as László Tóth’s.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025

The hat occults its background, and thus reconstructs itself.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

Researchers combined this evidence with computer models that reconstructed Earth's climate and geography across 245 million years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Using these genomic comparisons, the scientists reconstructed how transposable elements evolved and changed in activity over the past 100 million years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

She uses a feeding tube, has had her tongue and voice box removed, and had her windpipe reconstructed using chest tissue.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The process recalls versioning in dub, where an existing recording is stripped down and reconstructed, its individual elements isolated, amplified or faded out entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Then, dwarfed by the size of Ammu’s comb that was too big for him, he reconstructed his puff carefully.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

"This new dataset fixes coordinate errors in previous Earth rotation studies. Additionally, it improves the accuracy of dating and reconstructing historical astronomical events," said coauthor Mitsuru Sôma of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ms. Margolles purchased a home in the middle of this and demolished it, here reconstructing the rubble into a rectangular minimalist monument that stretches across a large gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Instead of gathering a large collection of measurements and reconstructing the state afterward, this type of measurement can identify an entangled state using a one-shot approach.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The discovery highlights the risks of reconstructing an extinct animal from only a small part of its skeleton.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Cremonini went on to publish a lengthy book on the heavens in which no mention was made of Galileo’s discoveries, for the simple reason that they were irrelevant to the task of reconstructing Aristotle’s thinking.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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