- past participle of reconstruct.
- past tense form of reconstruct.
reconstructed
Example Sentences
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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
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
From this work, they reconstructed the genomes of 645 microbial species.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 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 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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