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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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Genetic analysis allowed the researchers to reconstruct family pedigrees covering as many as four generations.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

A matching signal might reveal where certain forms of dust are being produced and help researchers reconstruct the physical and chemical processes occurring there.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

The prophecy states that they’ll acquire the powers of “Break” – to dismantle or undo something – and “Seal” to contain, reconstruct or suppress something.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Instead of dividing the detector into millions of tiny units, the system uses advanced camera technology to reconstruct where the light originated.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

If the larger picture of ancient forager life is hard to reconstruct, particular events are largely irretrievable.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

The brief life that Mr. Le Tellier carefully reconstructs illuminates an era when so many ordinary people were called on to be extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 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

She starts with the propositions that all is God and that there is no matter, and then reconstructs the Bible to accommodate these statements.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

In recent years, a local group of volunteers working under the name Maine’s First Ship reconstructed the Virginia piece by piece using historical materials.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Argentine scientists analysed samples from most of the 33 infected people, which included 11 deaths, during the outbreak in Epuyen, and reconstructed how people crossed paths at that fateful birthday party.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

To verify their results, the team reconstructed the quantum motion of the trapped ion.

From Science Daily May 1, 2026

But adding dual-fuel or “fuel ready” engine systems, which can be gutted and reconstructed later if regulators force a shift away from conventional fuels, costs about $10 million per ship.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

To no one’s surprise, that reconstructed Proto-Austronesian language had words with meanings such as “two,” “bird,” “ear,” and “head louse”: of course, Proto-Austronesians could count to 2, knew of birds, and had ears and lice.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

In other words, to view a Shih piece is to collaborate with the artist on reconstructing or, in some cases, reclaiming an understanding of place and self.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Those textile fragments ultimately became one of the most important sources of evidence in reconstructing the history and age of the collection.

From Science Daily Jun. 8, 2026

One major challenge has been the difficulty of accurately reconstructing both global temperatures and greenhouse gas levels from so far back in time.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2026

The biggest difficulty in reconstructing the pre-Colombian past is the absence of voices from that past.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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