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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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VERB
restore
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Households could reduce spending temporarily to rebuild their savings after drawing down their bank accounts earlier in the year to cope with another burst of inflation.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

“At a time like this, ICE should be trying to do everything it can to rebuild public trust, to reconstruct itself as a credible law enforcement agency,” Shah said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"I am standing to unite our party, to back our movement, to seize this moment and rebuild Scottish Labour as a party for working people of Scotland," he said.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

These cells gather around the edges of damaged brain regions and help rebuild the lost astrocyte network.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Sure it had its advantages, like the salary, the security, and, with seniority, the schedule: Starting work at dawn, Kingsley had afternoons free to work on his land and rebuild his log cabin.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

An essential part of the logic of hosting had been to help catalyse new infrastructure including transport and stadium builds and rebuilds.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

“Nothing goes away,” the omniscient narrator observes of a ruined cottage that Tomás rebuilds.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 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

The Lord will cause Jerusalem to be rebuilded “upon her own heap.”

From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Isaac Massey Haldeman

The machine as it grinds must be rebuilded.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

When the house on Third and Cumberland was burnt, he rebuilded it, and the owners charged him such rent he had to move.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration

This castle, since rebuilded, you, my children, are of course familiar with, for you were all born here.

From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea

In them days Commandments were mostly done in gilt letters on a black ground, and that's how they were out where I say, before the owld church was rebuilded.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Aeon, the Japanese retailer operating the mall, had boasted that the rebuilt structure was designed for resilience in quakes—and sure enough, it withstood the violent shaking this time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

But the deeper failure isn’t land management alone—it’s an aviation fleet the federal government has let atrophy for decades and never rebuilt to match the threat.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

It said it has now closed the vulnerabilities highlighted by the incident and rebuilt the affected systems.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

One of Europe's biggest onshore wind farms is to be flattened and rebuilt with fewer, taller turbines, its owner has announced.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Sagging piles of rotted wood and fabric had rebuilt themselves into fainting couches and armchairs, and sunlight streamed through high windows once so grimy I’d thought they were blacked out.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The government has declared an "economic emergency" but has not yet published estimates of how much rebuilding the quake zone will cost.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

In the view of Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, the stock market in August is rebuilding exposure after the selloff last month, but “not in a way that has removed the instability.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

“An important part of that process is allowing them to safely return home and begin rebuilding a sense of security and normalcy,” the statement continued.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

By the time Aggarwal arrived for the three-day affair, he had already laid off staff, stopped selling the company’s original product and was rebuilding.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Ivy didn’t get how a lot of the words worked together, things like insurance claims and rebuilding and months and years.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake




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