reconstruction
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The government estimates overall reconstruction could cost $4.8 billion, with thousands of people displaced and key infrastructure damaged.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
The board estimates full recovery and reconstruction will require about $71.4bn over the next decade.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The unreliable airspace and transport networks – coupled with agricultural losses, business disruption and reconstruction costs – trigger banking and insurance crises, producing a global recession.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
They have sought to engage those instincts, pitching Cuba’s future to Trump not only as a political cause and part of his legacy, but also as a vast reconstruction project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The reconstruction, published in newspapers and magazines around the world, elicited assertions that Indians had European ancestry.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
Stadium reconstructions are "becoming more important because of the situation with television media rights", Manuel Gutierrez, vice president of European asset finance at Morningstar DBRS, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
By combining high speed imaging with three dimensional reconstructions of more than 1,000 cells, the researchers showed how networks of fused neurons coordinate the beating of cilia on different parts of the animal's body.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
The attitude of prehistoric man towards death is, of course, known to us only through deductions and reconstructions, but I am of the opinion that these have given us fairly trustworthy information.
From Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
Vocabulary lists containing reconstruction
Chapter 18: The Reconstruction Era
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Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech (1940)
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Chapter 5, Sections 1–4
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