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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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Found in northern Israel, the fossil has helped researchers reconstruct a surprisingly lush prehistoric landscape filled with forests, rivers, wetlands, and abundant vegetation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

By recognizing the surviving fragments of these ancient structures, scientists can better reconstruct how tectonic plates descended beneath one another, how volcanic arcs shifted, how continental crust grew, and how once-vast oceans eventually closed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

They combined these measurements with other chemical markers left behind by organisms living in open water, allowing them to reconstruct Arctic ice conditions thousands of years in the past.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Many existing miniature spectrometers depend on complicated calibration procedures and demanding algorithms to reconstruct spectral information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The findings come from a study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, which reconstructs the ancient marine ecosystem preserved in Colombia’s Paja Formation.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025

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

Step by step he tests and reconstructs his belief, tracing it back to its beginning.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Researchers combined this evidence with computer models that reconstructed Earth's climate and geography across 245 million years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Scientists have previously reconstructed ancient solar cycles by studying radiocarbon preserved in tree rings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Experiments with reconstructed wooden spears produce very similar round holes in bone."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent's leading public health agency, has reconstructed the Kenyan patient's movements for the six weeks leading up to his death.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Ekman paused, then reconstructed that particular sequence of expressions on his face.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

"This new dataset fixes coordinate errors in previous Earth rotation studies. Additionally, it improves the accuracy of dating and reconstructing historical astronomical events," said coauthor Mitsuru Sôma of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

That makes its samples particularly valuable for reconstructing the conditions that existed before Earth and the other rocky planets finished forming.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Ms. Margolles purchased a home in the middle of this and demolished it, here reconstructing the rubble into a rectangular minimalist monument that stretches across a large gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

By reconstructing two major eruptions from the volcano's past, the scientists found that magma followed very different routes and moved toward the surface at very different speeds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

He still entertained a pair of opinions—or, to use his word, “concepts”—and, in reconstructing the crime, had developed both a “single-killer concept” and a “double-killer concept.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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