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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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STRONGEST


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

Grant said it was an apt name because his company aimed to rebuild a metals supply chain for America with a smelter planned for Arkansas.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Bass called the permit request a “slap in the face,” and criticized the company for looking to rebuild before the cleanup had been completed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

All three candidates promised to change, rebuild and unite the party following its worst Holyrood election defeat since devolution.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

They were always to rebuild such a new world as never was seen.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Emergency orders allow “like-for-like” replacements; some residents are moving toward all-electric home rebuilds.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2026

Regional facilities that handle plane inspections and rebuilds feel the squeeze the most.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 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

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

From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Isaac Massey Haldeman

Once, there at the beginning of the nineties, Grand Trunk made tentative offers for the control of the rebuilded property.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford

For we look to the bed as a refuge from our troubles, as a sanctuary wherein is rebuilded our strength.

From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson

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

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

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 while those reserves helped cushion the blow to the world economy, they will need to be rebuilt ahead of a fresh interruption to supply.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

At this World Cup, that squad gave its all — body and soul — and rebuilt a relationship with the fans that had seemed broken since the 2024 Copa América.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

It had also been rebuilt twice, first in 1527 and again in 1536, when its weight was increased to seven hundred tons and its number of cannons and other weapons was dramatically increased.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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

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

Now out of the armed forces, Tilly is rebuilding her life but is still deeply affected by her brief time at AFC.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

During this period, she had another key rebuilding project on her hands.

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




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