reconstruction
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Iranian state media estimates that postwar reconstruction could cost around $270 billion, a crippling sum for a country with an annual gross domestic product last year of $341 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Using computed tomography scanning data, Srivastava digitally separated the crushed bones and created a 3D printed reconstruction of the skull.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
Retaining control of Hormuz is "existential, it's life or death," both as a long-term security guarantee and a crucial source of funding for post‑war reconstruction, he added.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
How the government confronts the enormous reconstruction work and the economic challenges due to the Gulf war may ultimately become the defining test of President Dissanayake's leadership.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction?
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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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