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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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By sequencing genetic material preserved in teeth, the scientists were able to reconstruct ancient bacterial genomes and identify previously unknown early forms of plague.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

By studying chemical signatures locked inside the rocks, the team was able to reconstruct geological events dating back roughly 3.1 billion years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

"It is not something that you could reconstruct quickly."

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

"So you try to reconstruct, but part of your day you can't work because it's just too dangerous."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In a recent study published in Nature Catalysis, researchers found that highly active structures can form in situ when the surface of NiO reconstructs during POM.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

The life Mr. Meyer reconstructs reads as a sustained revolt against the power of categories to diminish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

It is the whole of Western Europe that Reade reconstructs for the groundwork of his simple story.

From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The study describes how the researchers reconstructed the sequence of changes preserved in Karelia's rocks following the first major increase in atmospheric oxygen.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

While people were grieving and exhausted, critical financial obligations had to be reconstructed, verified and settled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

O'Keeffe reconstructed the episode by comparing Byfield's 1851 memoir with contemporary newspaper reports and legal records.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

On paper, the star-studded offense is seemingly invincible, the reconstructed defense inarguably impenetrable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 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

After making those corrections, the team developed a new method for reconstructing the glacier's internal ice in three dimensions using Bayesian statistics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

When something goes wrong, however, reconstructing that journey can begin to feel like a real investigation.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

He discovered the Internet Archive had preserved a copy of Vine's data and spent months reconstructing it.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Like most whodunits, this one is about reconstructing past events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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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