reconstruct
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“Whereas if you only have a tiny fragment, it’s like doing a crossword puzzle. You have to argue, to research, and to reconstruct the entire object.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
But they could not reconstruct with retrospective precision who stood near a location hours earlier.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
Published in Nature Communications, the research combines archaeology, ancient DNA analysis, isotope studies, and skeletal evidence to reconstruct how people lived, moved, ate, and buried their dead roughly 3,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
The city is still working to reconstruct the bridge, which is expected to take years and cost billions of dollars.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
In the 1950s, Ed Lewis, a fruit fly geneticist at Caltech, began to reconstruct the formation of fruit fly embryos.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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