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reconstruction

[ree-kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / ˌri kənˈstrʌk ʃən /


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As the city contends with a string of challenges—declining snowfall and plummeting real-estate sales among them—it is the runway reconstruction that has become one of the hottest-button topics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The end of steelmaking in Ukraine would also have severe consequences for its defence capabilities and reconstruction.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Now, as Nepal shifts from emergency response to reconstruction, he said he hopes to return to his profession.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

If things got worse in Europe, philanthropic spending would grind to a halt in the United States; even if the war clouds dispelled, millions of dollars would shift to Europe for economic reconstruction.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In June, the board approved three other seismic-risk reconstructions totaling $496.9 million: Normandie Avenue Elementary and 107th Street Elementary — both in South L.A. — and Narbonne High School in the Harbor area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Early attempts to present real events on celluloid sometimes combined on-the-scene footage with staged reconstructions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The team created digital reconstructions of the femurs of seven sauropod species.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Their work included sediment coring, laboratory testing, climate reconstructions, and studies of past plant and animal activity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

And from that day to this the Loudoun courthouse, in its various and successive reconstructions, has always stood on these lots of Captain Nicholas Minor, thus granted by him to the county for that purpose.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams




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