reconstruction
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On Tuesday, the board approved major reconstruction projects at four elementary schools for a combined $322.6 million — Menlo Avenue, 93rd Street, 96th Street and 122nd Street, all in South Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
He picked Chicago because he believed in Getz’s reconstruction project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The PC also lost a large percentage of the skin from his back after landing on the road and is on a waiting list for ankle ligament reconstruction.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nepal estimates the reconstruction bill after deadly floods sparked by a glacial mountain collapse last month will amount to $4.78 billion, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
According to one modern reconstruction, Dawnland diets at the time averaged about 2,500 calories a day, better than those usual in famine-racked Europe.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
In June, the board approved three other seismic-risk reconstructions totaling $496.9 million: Normandie Avenue Elementary and 107th Street Elementary — both in South L.A. — and Narbonne High School in the Harbor area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Early attempts to present real events on celluloid sometimes combined on-the-scene footage with staged reconstructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Reassessing older radiocarbon dates and improving climate reconstructions allowed scientists to better pinpoint when shifts from cold to warm conditions occurred.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
Stadium reconstructions are "becoming more important because of the situation with television media rights", Manuel Gutierrez, vice president of European asset finance at Morningstar DBRS, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
He merely insists that future 203 reconstructions will take into account the old in re-adjusting it to the new.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Vocabulary lists containing reconstruction
Chapter 18: The Reconstruction Era
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Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech (1940)
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Chapter 5, Sections 1–4
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