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rebuilt

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verb

past tense of rebuild

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rebuilt
Adjective
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 This included preserving the original 427 ci Ford FE big-block side-oiler V-8, and replacing it with a rebuilt version. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
With the town motel still not having been rebuilt, John stays at Hal’s for the night, where feeding his carnivorous alien plant Earl helps the former hero’s demise truly set in. — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026 The city determined in 2024 that the park was outdated and needed to be completely rebuilt. — Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026 As part of the refurbishment, one of the cylinder heads was rebuilt, while the cylinder head gaskets, water pump, spark plugs, wires, and various hoses were replaced. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2026 The rituals people used to get from nightlife, drink in hand, doing something together, meeting new people, are being rebuilt around movement, recovery and caffeine. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026 Layouts reconstructed, color systems borrowed, entire screens rebuilt from screenshots. — Lorenzo Alvaro, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 David Oiaknin has bought and rebuilt companies across construction, manufacturing, technology, and real estate. — Malana Vantyler, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026 Earlier, Renshaw rebuilt Australia from a tricky 107-4 in the 18th over by sharing partnerships of 72 and 74 runs with Alex Carey (27) and Oliver Peake (30) after captain Mitchell Marsh won the toss and elected to bat. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 Originally built in the mid-1200s as a fortress, it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times over the centuries. — Lucy Handley, CNBC, 14 Sep. 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
  • In the paper, the team reconstructed how the collapse of the Hunga volcano unfolded.
    — Yook Ji Hun, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
  • What happened—which can be reconstructed from messages that the agents sent one another and from traces of their own internal reasoning, known as chain-of-thought records—makes for gripping reading.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Many homes and apartments were rehabilitated, existing homeowners saw modest price increases alongside improving neighborhood conditions, and new long-term affordable apartments are underway.
    — Ira Goldstein, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Another option in case the property owners don't come together is for the hotel parcel to be rehabilitated.
    — Joan Murray, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • On Monday, the department formally removed the vacated Biden-era rule from the Code of Federal Regulations and restored the earlier regulatory language.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Oil prices, meanwhile, rose in their latest swings amid uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow the flow of crude to be fully restored.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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“Rebuilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebuilt. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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