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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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But with many vessels switching off their AIS before crossing Hormuz, analysts have to reconstruct the voyages using satellite imagery and other clues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Scientists are becoming better at identifying the types of rocks most likely to contain early fossils, providing new evidence that can help reconstruct the history of Earth's earliest life.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

“I feel too much pain. How does one reconstruct a life lost?”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Geyer hoped to reconstruct the children’s travels from Cincinnati onward.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The life Mr. Meyer reconstructs reads as a sustained revolt against the power of categories to diminish.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The findings come from a study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, which reconstructs the ancient marine ecosystem preserved in Colombia’s Paja Formation.

From Science Daily Dec. 19, 2025

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

The hat occults its background, and thus reconstructs itself.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

It was reconstructed at its current site in the border town of Cheorwon in 1988.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

A 31-foot predator that once hunted dinosaurs across what is now the eastern United States has been reconstructed in scientifically accurate, life-size form for the first time.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

They reconstructed 'family trees' from around 200 blood cell genomes belonging to these patients.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Writing in the Yale Law Journal, Cherneff reconstructed the history of In re Turner, an 1867 decision by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase that helped end the re-enslavement of Black children through involuntary “apprenticeships.”

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

So classical atomism, as revised and reconstructed in the seventeenth century by Gassendi, Descartes and others, explained nature in terms of interacting particles.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The actor leads a captivating series on National Geographic about the ancient city and its inhabitants, reconstructing the lives of those who might have escaped the lethal effects of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

In other words, to view a Shih piece is to collaborate with the artist on reconstructing or, in some cases, reclaiming an understanding of place and self.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

To him fell the job of organizing the workers, restoring order, and reconstructing the wreckage of the entire property.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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