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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

By studying purines and pyrimidines in Ryugu samples, scientists can reconstruct the chemical history of primitive asteroids.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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

This assumption of large-scale uniformity plays a central role in how scientists reconstruct the universe's history.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Let us just reconstruct that little scene. You were lying in your bunk—so—and you could not see for yourself, you say?”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Written by University of Cambridge AI researcher Eryk Salvaggio, it reconstructs the episode in much less cinematic terms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

On Earth, archaeology reconstructs the past by studying ancient artifacts and remains.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

Art reconstructs correlative portions of the environment for the eye, the ear, the hopes and fears of the daily life.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

By combining the observations from both telescopes, the researchers reconstructed the structure of Betelgeuse's outer layers, beginning just above its visible surface and extending outward to several times its radius.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

To investigate that relationship, the scientists reconstructed the temperature and rainfall preferences of 400 crocodile species and their ancient relatives.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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

"Experiments with reconstructed wooden spears produce very similar round holes in bone."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—but also duller and dustier.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

By reconstructing how earlier fungal diseases emerged, spread, and affected different species, researchers hope to improve their ability to recognize and respond to similar threats before they cause widespread damage.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The findings also demonstrate why scientists must draw on several independent methods when reconstructing population histories, particularly when written records are incomplete, unreliable, or shaped by historical biases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 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

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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