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verb

past tense of rebuild

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rebuilt
Adjective
This season was supposed to be different with a rebuilt defense. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Pope Francis had refused repeatedly to make a proper state visit to France during his 12-year pontificate and pointedly refused to join the inauguration of the rebuilt Notre Dame cathedral in 2024. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 The rebuilt 90,000-seat stadium, which opened in 2007, remains the home of England’s national teams and one of the sport’s most recognizable stages. — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 San Francisco cruised to a 27-7 victory over the Rams and their rebuilt defense in Australia. — Mike Sando, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The sunken living room bridges the rebuilt 1930s house and its new addition. — Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2026 The new logo is rolling out across product, visual communications and a rebuilt website. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026 During Thursday's announcement, Hochul warned that the state is increasing its efforts to combat auto insurance fraud, including through a new cross-agency task force and a rebuilt insurance fraud bureau. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 On Wednesday morning, WJZ cameras captured a massive crane lifting a support pylon for the rebuilt bridge into place. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
Four years ago, after helping found Matter, Apple rebuilt HomeKit’s underlying architecture and revamped the Home app, laying a strong foundation. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026 Cities almost entirely destroyed by American bombs had to be rebuilt. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 The harder question is how and when those stocks get rebuilt. — Heather Occhino, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026 Adrift Buendía Estudios Canarias, Boomerang TV, Atresmedia Five fishermen, who are presumed dead, return home two years later, upending the lives their wives had rebuilt without them. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed since the truce began, and little has been rebuilt as most residents remain displaced in tents, rubble or damaged buildings. — Joseph Krauss, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Each donor car is stripped down to its nuts and bolts before being rebuilt with carbon-fiber bodywork. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 The previous Le Carl Gustaf hotel, owned by entrepreneur Jacques Laurent, went into decline before Hurricane Irma and was slated to be rebuilt as apartments, but locals said no way. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Walking through prewar Berlin, taking in its historic architecture, Susanna daydreams of her native New York, an ever-changing city where buildings are torn down and rebuilt in the blink of an eye. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebuilt
Adjective
  • The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Strolling, moon-watching, reading, writing, burning incense, listening to the guqin and sharing a simple banquet were then reconstructed as experiences that visitors could enter and feel for themselves.
    — Li Jun, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, the 16-foot-by-32-foot church has been reconstructed, after archaeologists in 2021 uncovered the church’s original foundation, as well as 62 graves linked to the congregation.
    — Nancy Jiang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As of Saturday, the ministry said, more than 270 wild animals in Indonesia's part of Borneo had been rescued, rehabilitated or guided to safer habitats, including 46 orangutans rescued by YIARI.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Along Central Avenue, the nonprofit New Life Homes rehabilitated Luna Lodge into 30 affordable apartments in 2013 and reopened the Sundowner as 71 mixed-income apartments the following year.
    — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Maybe there’s an equilibrium that must be restored on this show, relationship-wise.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Congress restored most of the funding for fiscal year 2026 and is expected to do the same in the 2027 budget.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

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“Rebuilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebuilt. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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