reconstruction
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Catastrophes strain public finances beyond reconstruction costs, often raising insurance premiums and limiting population growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Miami discussions covered "security guarantees, as well as longer-term arrangements for Ukraine's and Europe's security to prevent future conflicts, and support Ukraine's post-war reconstruction," Witkoff said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
As the disease advances, some patients may ultimately require joint reconstruction procedures such as a total knee replacement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Today, to the consternation of many residents, a full-scale reconstruction is under way at Nir Oz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The first was the snow, the second was our reconstruction of that fragment.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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In June, the board approved three other seismic-risk reconstructions totaling $496.9 million: Normandie Avenue Elementary and 107th Street Elementary — both in South L.A. — and Narbonne High School in the Harbor area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
To investigate what the region may have looked like hundreds of millions of years ago, the team combined reconstructions of plate tectonic movements with data showing how landscapes evolve through time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Early attempts to present real events on celluloid sometimes combined on-the-scene footage with staged reconstructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
If the Y chromosome from these remains matches that of living descendants, it would strengthen historical records and family lineage reconstructions.
From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026
Since these standards reappear in all other reconstructions of the environment and most clearly in art and in religion, it is pertinent to enumerate them, and to indicate briefly their bearing on existence.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Vocabulary lists containing reconstruction
Chapter 18: The Reconstruction Era
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Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech (1940)
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Chapter 5, Sections 1–4
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