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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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STRONGEST


VERB
restore
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In 2019, the town had discovered faulty concrete in Birch Grove Primary School, and needed to rebuild it fast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Boatwright worked under Niccol while Chipotle was trying to rebuild its reputation and bottom line following a food-safety scare during the prior decade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“We need to rebuild our fighting muscle,” Parker says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

So as families try to rebuild their lives, many are now caught in an administrative nightmare.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

She was taking these steps, making declarations, trying to rebuild herself just as she was remaking the house with the hornet’s nests the size of basketballs.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Raman, a Los Angeles City Council member, called for further streamlining of the permitting process for rebuilds as well, including by creating a wide set of preapproved, fire-resistant building plans.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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

But whence cometh all this to you, these stuffs and vessels, and who was it rebuilded this house in a space so short?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

What will it avail to these old bones if the Temple be rebuilded, and I die without placing my hands on the eyelids of my boy and blessing him in Thy name?

From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

The city destroyed by fire may be rebuilded as before.

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

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

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

These findings do not establish that damaged cartilage was rebuilt or that arthritis progression can be permanently stopped.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

In 2019, they ripped one version out of Brooksville and rebuilt it from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The house is thought to have begun as a platform house, being rebuilt in the 17th Century as a storied house.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Six years after the devastating Camp fire in 2018, regulated carriers continued to leave Paradise even as the community rebuilt, state data show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Brown mud walls that had crumbled many a time and been rebuilt many a time.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

"The task ahead is to move from coping to rebuilding, restoring fiscal space, and rebuilding supply-side resilience."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

"The task ahead is to move from coping to rebuilding, restoring fiscal space and supply-side resilience."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Many residents here say they can’t wait for American investors to arrive and start plowing money into rebuilding the country’s dilapidated oil infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He said the announcement should mark a "starting point" to rebuilding strained community relations in Portadown.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

My dad, who had a lifelong habit of switching jobs almost every year, took a position as a construction superintendent rebuilding a beachfront hotel and casino.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos




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