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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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STRONGEST


VERB
restore
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But residents still struggle to rebuild their livelihoods.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

“We believe the decision reflects a deliberate trade-off: preserve customer economics and deployment velocity while using scale, mix and future manufacturing learning to rebuild part of the margin,” Acree writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The arrangement, he promised, would lower grocery bills while giving America’s depleted cattle herd time to rebuild.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

Plunging into a rebuild, new president of baseball operations John Hart’s first big move was to trade Heyward to the Cardinals for pitching.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The scouring winds of the civil war, which had lasted five years and spread across two continents, left the population of her country struggling to feed itself and to rebuild its industries.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But this offseason, Oklahoma State embraced the Indiana blueprint and embarked on one of the most ambitious rebuilds in football.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Rebels led by HTS overthrew long-time Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, with the group's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa taking over as president as the country rebuilds after more than 13 years of civil war.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 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

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

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

Nevertheless, 'In the Market-Place of Bruges stands the Belfry old and brown;  Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town.'

From Bruges and West Flanders by Amédée Forestier

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

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

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 1988, he founded WallBuilders, named for a biblical passage in which the Jewish people rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Vendors have little hope that the market will be rebuilt before the end of the war.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Ollie Watkins came through at Exeter City, Adam Wharton at Blackburn Rovers and Eberechi Eze - after being released by Arsenal - rebuilt his career at Millwall and QPR.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

“But so is the life rebuilt in its wake.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Entire villages had disappeared; some would never be rebuilt.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

There are also signs that companies are rebuilding inventories.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

His company has lost eight petrol stations and is rebuilding another two after they were hit.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

"This is resistance ... to spite the enemy. We work, we live, we show that we're not surrendering. This is our town and we're rebuilding it," she told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

The biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb chose Anthropic’s Claude as its “standard harness” to avoid rebuilding basic infrastructure tooling, according to Greg Meyers, its chief digital and technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

He intended to prepare the people for the long task of rebuilding the South.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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