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
The agency also canceled a "controlled flood" planned for April that was intended to rebuild sandbars used as fish habitat.
From Science Daily ● 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
She fretted that she’d be unable to rebuild her audience and livelihood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
She would rebuild her platforms and make a watertight shelter.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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While America rebuilds, Australia will keep supplying high-quality beef.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
In a drive-by survey of a portion of Altadena she identified 24 prefab projects, or about 1 out of 9 rebuilds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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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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
He had built new bridges by the dozens; purchased and rebuilded cars and locomotives by the hundreds.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
But whence cometh all this to you, these stuffs and vessels, and who was it rebuilded this house in a space so short?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Once more the vast dome of heaven became the roof of my house, and within the house was rebuilded that which my soul called beautiful.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
The Lord will cause Jerusalem to be rebuilded “upon her own heap.”
From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Isaac Massey Haldeman
Six years after the devastating Camp fire in 2018, regulated carriers continued to leave Paradise even as the community rebuilt, state data show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
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
Leclerc was unhurt and the race was stopped while the marshals rebuilt the barriers at the famous final corner.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Sitting in the one o’clock sun, she rebuilt her house, populated the yard with her father and brother and Calpurnia, put Henry across the street and Miss Rachel next door.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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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
When solemn promises are set aside, rebuilding trust becomes more difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Once those cells are lost, the damage has traditionally been considered permanent because there are currently no treatments capable of rebuilding the affected brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
They began rebuilding the herd in the summer of 2022, with the first heifers arriving from Denmark a few months later.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I started rebuilding my guard, brick by brick.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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