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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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Researchers must distinguish between these possibilities before using fossil marks to reconstruct prehistoric behavior or ecological relationships.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

If AI models can generate scientific and mathematical breakthroughs but cannot explain their own reasoning in ways humans can understand, we might remain unable to reconstruct the intellectual path by which those answers were reached.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The results could give archaeologists a powerful new way to reconstruct when people entered decorated caves, made paintings, and returned to alter or add to them.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

And I think that trying to reconstruct that experience almost takes away the mystery of it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The same procedure can be applied to reconstruct Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the ancestral language spoken by Austronesians after emigrating from Taiwan.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

ALFA-K tracks thousands of individual cells over time, accounting for ongoing chromosome instability and reconstructs local fitness landscapes.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2026

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

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

Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2024

The Patriot will not publish it even if Stack reconstructs it.

From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

Researchers compared the reconstructed dodo brain cavities with those of living pigeons and doves, which are the dodo's closest living relatives.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

A 31-foot predator that once hunted dinosaurs across what is now the eastern United States has been reconstructed in scientifically accurate, life-size form for the first time.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Writing in the Yale Law Journal, Cherneff reconstructed the history of In re Turner, an 1867 decision by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase that helped end the re-enslavement of Black children through involuntary “apprenticeships.”

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

In recent years, a local group of volunteers working under the name Maine’s First Ship reconstructed the Virginia piece by piece using historical materials.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Bobby gave the authorities the address of his hotel and his cell phone number and asked if they could call him when the reconstructed passport was ready.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The actor leads a captivating series on National Geographic about the ancient city and its inhabitants, reconstructing the lives of those who might have escaped the lethal effects of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

In other words, to view a Shih piece is to collaborate with the artist on reconstructing or, in some cases, reclaiming an understanding of place and self.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Those textile fragments ultimately became one of the most important sources of evidence in reconstructing the history and age of the collection.

From Science Daily Jun. 8, 2026

He still entertained a pair of opinions—or, to use his word, “concepts”—and, in reconstructing the crime, had developed both a “single-killer concept” and a “double-killer concept.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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