reconstruct
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By determining where particular amphibians were present or absent, researchers can reconstruct environmental changes at a more local scale.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I feel too much pain. How does one reconstruct a life lost?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“At a time like this, ICE should be trying to do everything it can to rebuild public trust, to reconstruct itself as a credible law enforcement agency,” Shah said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If AI models can generate scientific and mathematical breakthroughs but cannot explain their own reasoning in ways humans can understand, we might remain unable to reconstruct the intellectual path by which those answers were reached.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is impossible today to reconstruct what actually occurred, because the exact nature of Gunda’s tumor is unrecorded and whether other factors contributed to her recovery is undocumented.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
ALFA-K tracks thousands of individual cells over time, accounting for ongoing chromosome instability and reconstructs local fitness landscapes.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 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
Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Literature reconstructs life, and penetrates even to the very life- blood of humanity, from generation to generation.
From Sanine by Percy Pinkerton
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
During the 1950s and 1960s, the team reconstructed a monumental bath gymnasium complex and the largest synagogue in the ancient world.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
Researchers supplied the model with a 1,000-year earthquake history reconstructed from geological evidence, including radiocarbon dating, tree ring records, and historical observations of ground ruptures.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—but also duller and dustier.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The actor leads a captivating series on National Geographic about the ancient city and its inhabitants, reconstructing the lives of those who might have escaped the lethal effects of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
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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