reconstruct
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Scientists may never be able to fully reconstruct the routes that early marsupials took as they spread and evolved.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The prophecy states that they’ll acquire the powers of “Break” – to dismantle or undo something – and “Seal” to contain, reconstruct or suppress something.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
In this study, researchers used tandem mass spectrometry at UCL Chemistry to break peptides into smaller fragments, measure those fragments, and reconstruct each peptide's structure.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The fact that Neanderthal DNA is rare on the X chromosome does not, in itself, allow us to reconstruct Palaeolithic social organization or the sexual preferences of these populations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
On Earth, archaeology reconstructs the past by studying ancient artifacts and remains.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 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
With the help of some vivid old photographs, their documentary reconstructs a world that was both darkly dangerous and strangely liberating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Art reconstructs correlative portions of the environment for the eye, the ear, the hopes and fears of the daily life.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
In recent years, a local group of volunteers working under the name Maine’s First Ship reconstructed the Virginia piece by piece using historical materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Argentine scientists analysed samples from most of the 33 infected people, which included 11 deaths, during the outbreak in Epuyen, and reconstructed how people crossed paths at that fateful birthday party.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
The structures we observed in Scotty's rib appear to be part of that process, forming a dense network of mineralized vessels that we reconstructed using 3D models.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
But adding dual-fuel or “fuel ready” engine systems, which can be gutted and reconstructed later if regulators force a shift away from conventional fuels, costs about $10 million per ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
The damaged copy of a gene is reconstructed using the complementary strand, or the second copy of the gene, as its guide.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
By reconstructing how supernova occurrence rates vary with the ages of stars in different galaxies, the model helps scientists investigate long standing questions about the systems that eventually produce these explosions.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
The team developed a bioinformatic framework capable of reconstructing the evolutionary history of complex polyploid genomes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 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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