reconstruct
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What happened in the minutes that followed is still difficult to reconstruct.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Nepal's Department of Immigration has been trying to reconstruct who passed through Rasuwagadhi in the final hours before the disaster.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
By tracking extremely small changes in the spacecrafts' velocities, the team was able to reconstruct the gravitational field surrounding Mars.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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 “The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France,” Jeremy D. Popkin, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Kentucky, reconstructs the intricate political debates that preceded the 1794 law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
Louisiana, La Salle in; extent of; French in; struggle for; Spanish; purchased; admitted; boundary; secedes; reconstructs government; readmitted.
From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
On paper, the star-studded offense is seemingly invincible, the reconstructed defense inarguably impenetrable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Although the intact pot has not provided many direct clues about how it was used, its archaeological setting adds another piece to the larger history being reconstructed at the site.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
It was reconstructed at its current site in the border town of Cheorwon in 1988.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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
Using the site’s graphics tools, she reconstructed her body, but most of her wish list focused on her face, new nose, chin, cheekbones.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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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
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
Cremonini went on to publish a lengthy book on the heavens in which no mention was made of Galileo’s discoveries, for the simple reason that they were irrelevant to the task of reconstructing Aristotle’s thinking.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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