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reconstruct

[ree-kuhn-struhkt] / ˌri kənˈstrʌkt /


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This assumption of large-scale uniformity plays a central role in how scientists reconstruct the universe's history.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

By recognizing the surviving fragments of these ancient structures, scientists can better reconstruct how tectonic plates descended beneath one another, how volcanic arcs shifted, how continental crust grew, and how once-vast oceans eventually closed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

They combined these measurements with other chemical markers left behind by organisms living in open water, allowing them to reconstruct Arctic ice conditions thousands of years in the past.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Investigating these layers has helped scientists reconstruct a time billions of years ago when lakes and streams existed in this region of Mars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

I now had to reconstruct the text upon which the simple commentary had been based.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

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

A helpful digital “fly through” video reconstructs the vast fortress, elaborately decorated with brightly colored, often patterned murals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

"Here's the way it reconstructs: "Our agent was en route to the rendezvous when he was intercepted by Naomi.

From Double Take by Richard Wilson

She uses a feeding tube, has had her tongue and voice box removed, and had her windpipe reconstructed using chest tissue.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The researchers also tested testosterone on human skin reconstructed in the laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Experiments with reconstructed wooden spears produce very similar round holes in bone."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The last time audiences saw Vision, the reconstructed synthezoid was flying off into the distance, and we didn’t know when we’d actually see him again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

To no one’s surprise, that reconstructed Proto-Austronesian language had words with meanings such as “two,” “bird,” “ear,” and “head louse”: of course, Proto-Austronesians could count to 2, knew of birds, and had ears and lice.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

That makes its samples particularly valuable for reconstructing the conditions that existed before Earth and the other rocky planets finished forming.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

By reconstructing the branches of the embryo's cellular family tree, the researchers could determine when different groups of cells began following distinct developmental paths.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

The discovery highlights the risks of reconstructing an extinct animal from only a small part of its skeleton.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

He still entertained a pair of opinions—or, to use his word, “concepts”—and, in reconstructing the crime, had developed both a “single-killer concept” and a “double-killer concept.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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