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rebuild

[ree-bild] / riˈbɪld /
VERB
repair
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STRONGEST


VERB
restore
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The company plans to rebuild its brand around the idea of a “phytosphere,” or plant-based ecosystem, said Brown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

To unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon and launch a new age of exploration in space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"We are sorry and we know we have work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people," Kwon said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

I didn't see any way Schindler could dismantle, move, and rebuild the entire plant.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

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

In a drive-by survey of a portion of Altadena she identified 24 prefab projects, or about 1 out of 9 rebuilds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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

Only thus are the walls broken down rebuilded.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

Within my own calm mirror a beautiful world had seen itself rebuilded.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

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

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

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

From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Isaac Massey Haldeman

After LeBron James led a wave of veteran departures, the Lakers rebuilt around Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

In another post, he expressed his wish for "an independent Quebec, a rebuilt Haiti".

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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

PET contains carbon-rich molecules that can potentially be broken apart and rebuilt into useful compounds, including components that can ultimately become proteins.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

It had been totally rebuilt from dazzling white marble, bigger and grander than ever—with golden windows and rooftop gardens.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

At the UN General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister Balen Shah explained rebuilding the country would require more than 10% of its gross domestic product, an enormous burden on the country's economy.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

She is frustrated that “the Jewish people, in the name of rebuilding and showing that we are strong, are erasing our own history and the stuff that the world needs to see.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

As fire victims navigate insurance gaps and expensive rebuilding costs, the exemption was proposed as a way to give them more flexibility should they choose to sell their homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But he said the rebuilding efforts could also provide spiritual sustenance.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Rarely do their makers claim to be restoring or rebuilding anything from the past; and they are never in full control of the results.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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