reconstruction

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Recent Examples of reconstruction The celebrity chef’s raw and darkly humorous memoir explores her family’s demise and reconstruction — through divorce, estrangements, a brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 The coating was built using in situ reconstruction. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025 Property owners and contractors are required to request building permits for any repairs and reconstruction. Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025 If the Pisces lunar eclipse feels like dissolution, the Virgo solar eclipse is reconstruction. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reconstruction
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstruction
Noun
  • Then in early August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported large downward revisions to its estimates of payroll growth in May and June, and another month of soft hiring in July.
    Jon Hilsenrath, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But Congress is now sitting on bills that are attempting to overturn three relatively new revisions in North Dakota, Montana, and Alaska.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, the specific functions of DSE — design, simulation and experimentation in support of helicopters, advanced rotorcraft, drones and other vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft — would be significantly impaired.
    Mike Hirschberg, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Watch On For each mission simulation, one astronaut pilots the aircraft while another charts the landing area, marking key landmarks, identifying potential hazards and helping to track the flight path.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Making meals and memories The living room flows into the kitchen, which wasn’t initially part of the Kamareses' remodeling plan.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Cincinnati House & Outdoor Living Show This 3-day expo offers innovative displays, showcasing the latest trends in design and product offerings, and brings the most knowledgeable remodeling and building experts together.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His split noggin bobs in a direct re-creation of the way the show once depicted Hussein, underlining a link between the two figures.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And as far as music is concerned, reformation doesn’t really come into it so much.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The process observed involved stages of turbulence generation, rope merging, equilibrium collapse, and reformation.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Written in the flush of a new friendship with co-producer, engineer, and musician Sam Weber, the album unspools a suite of folk miniatures riven with discursive melodies as evocative as the cultural ephemera dotted through the lyrics.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Why Giovanni Loves Molise Molise is Italy in miniature.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Yet as public-sector budgets come under fiscal pressure the world over, festivals in any place of the world are seeking an industrial reconversion from one-off events to year-round hubs enrolling their brands – and Clermont Ferrand’s is very large – to amplify their value.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 30 May 2025
  • Maenza and Haider met for the first time in person at a reception following an ecumenical prayer service lamenting the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 July 2021
Noun
  • During the offseason, the Giants went through a complete overhaul under center.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But if not, there might be the need for another fairly drastic overhaul and the injection of some game-changers.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Reconstruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruction. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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