rebuild
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The reason is that the cost of insuring his home and rentals is a few thousand dollars a year, much lower than the potential out-of-pocket cost he would face if he had to rebuild them.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
We’ve got to rebuild infrastructure to deal with hundred-year floods that are happening every other year now.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
But it’s a wait advocates say is well worth it, one that will prove that a community, Altadena or elsewhere, can rebuild its canopy if it’s willing to invest now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Tissues such as skin, along with the epithelial layers that cover and line many organs, have a remarkable ability to rebuild themselves after extensive damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I can’t believe you know how to rebuild an engine,” she said to Burl the first day we visited.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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But this offseason, Oklahoma State embraced the Indiana blueprint and embarked on one of the most ambitious rebuilds in football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
The findings support a broader model in which fresh magma gradually enters and rebuilds reservoirs beneath giant calderas after major eruptions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The utility has said that burying the wires as the town rebuilds thousands of homes destroyed in the fire will make the electrical grid safer and more reliable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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The Lord will cause Jerusalem to be rebuilded “upon her own heap.”
From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Isaac Massey Haldeman
Nevertheless, 'In the Market-Place of Bruges stands the Belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town.'
From Bruges and West Flanders by Amédée Forestier
Within my own calm mirror a beautiful world had seen itself rebuilded.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
In a rebuilded Jamestown, Lord De La Warr, of "approved courage, temper and experience," held for a short interval dignified, seigneurial sway, while his restless associates adventured far and wide.
From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Mary Johnston
What will it avail to these old bones if the Temple be rebuilded, and I die without placing my hands on the eyelids of my boy and blessing him in Thy name?
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
The report does not include those costs in its estimates, saying it is not yet clear if all the bases will be rebuilt, or who will foot the bill.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
It earned plaudits from Questlove and Snoop Dogg, won a Grammy for progressive R&B album, and hung on as the record business imploded and rebuilt in the streaming era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
PET contains carbon-rich molecules that can potentially be broken apart and rebuilt into useful compounds, including components that can ultimately become proteins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Queen visited a library rebuilt after being destroyed in a riot, telling the children she met that "you can never have too many books".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
With help from some of the miners, he rebuilt the bridge, made it to Bonners Ferry, and returned just in time for the doctor to deliver his first daughter, Rose.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Evelyn Tribole, co-creator and author of Intuitive Eating, describes rebuilding trust with the body as something that is always available to us and can happen incrementally.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement Tuesday she would continue to push to keep Lineage from rebuilding at the site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
In the years following the eruption, the world moves into long-term recovery and rebuilding.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Sharma told reporters that any financial damages won by the province would go towards rebuilding the secondary school.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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