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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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From the rise and fall of the signal’s pitch as the satellite passed overhead, the scientists could reconstruct the entire orbit from a listening post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Researchers can reconstruct the order in which water altered the Margin Unit, although they cannot yet determine exactly when each episode happened.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

One standard approach is quantum tomography, a technique used to reconstruct and estimate a quantum state by making many measurements.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

Taken together, they provide something like a sequence of snapshots, allowing researchers to reconstruct how gas dispersal changes as systems grow older.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

In short, the historical record itself, and not just our own omniscient imaginations, provides the requisite evidence from which we can reconstruct the response to the proslavery argument.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Written by University of Cambridge AI researcher Eryk Salvaggio, it reconstructs the episode in much less cinematic terms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

To do that, they used quantum tomography, a technique that reconstructs a quantum system by examining many different 'slices' of its behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

In three-and-a-half hours and for less than $10 million, Corbet reconstructs post-war America from the ground up, proving his sweeping artistic vision to be just as impressive as László Tóth’s.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025

Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Step by step he tests and reconstructs his belief, tracing it back to its beginning.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

He accepted AI was used "to distinguish and visualize features in the reconstructed grayscale images".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

While people were grieving and exhausted, critical financial obligations had to be reconstructed, verified and settled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

This series of highly localised temperatures was reconstructed by Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the independent Berkeley Earth organisation in California.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

On paper, the star-studded offense is seemingly invincible, the reconstructed defense inarguably impenetrable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Fragments of pink Aswan granite from the Pharos are built into the reconstructed Fort Qaitbey, which stands on the site of the original lighthouse.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Ms. Margolles purchased a home in the middle of this and demolished it, here reconstructing the rubble into a rectangular minimalist monument that stretches across a large gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

When something goes wrong, however, reconstructing that journey can begin to feel like a real investigation.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

The potential applications extend beyond reconstructing evolutionary history.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

He discovered the Internet Archive had preserved a copy of Vine's data and spent months reconstructing it.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Isabel Wilkerson performed a different but equally arduous feat of reporting: reconstructing a life.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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