reassembling

verb

present participle of reassemble
as in reconstructing

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  1. reconstructing
  2. rebuilding
  3. retrofitting
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  • Burke, who was reconstructing fossil gharials for his doctoral project, noted the subtle differences between the unidentified species and the false gharial, and started to work on an up-to-date description in December 2023.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The next challenge is to apply these controllable 3D light fields to increasingly complex systems and develop better ways of reconstructing the resulting electron motion.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of reconstructing
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  • City crews are pumping out water on the streets, rebuilding beach berms and opening tide valves to help mitigate water intrusion.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The negotiations are focused on rebuilding institutions, including Venezuela’s supreme court and electoral commission, to underpin free and fair elections.
    — Helena Carpio, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of rebuilding
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  • The human question As far as human spaceflight goes, SpaceX has been narrowly focused on retrofitting Starship for a multibillion-dollar NASA contact to ferry government astronauts to the moon amid a space race with China.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Budgeting for that gap now will be far cheaper than retrofitting governance after an agent goes rogue or a breach makes the decision for you.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of retrofitting
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“Reassembling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reassembling. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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