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as in rebuilding
to build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed
After the fire they had to completely reconstruct the building from the ground up.
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as in recreating
to find out and describe or show the way something (such as an event or series of events) happened
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Recent Examples of reconstructing
After reconstructing the roster over the past four months, with tweaks still ongoing, the Charlotte Hornets are ready for the next chapter.
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025
The National Avenue project involves reconstructing the street from South First to South 39th streets from 2026 through 2028.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Humans have largely succeeded in digitally reconstructing the Earth in order to ask what the future holds.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
In living tissue, light scattering is common, signal contrast is often low, and reconstructing intricate features across a large volume presents a significant computational challenge.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Like detectives reconstructing a crime scene or archaeologists inferring the entire shape of a pot from a minimal number of fragments, scholars of historical linguistics figure out the earlier forms that must have given rise to words in many different languages and connect the dots between them.
—Martha Barnette
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
These data points are critical in reconstructing a timeline of events, particularly in cases where physical witnesses or traditional evidence may be limited.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Other projects would include reconstructing North Water Street, between East Clybourn and East Erie streets; East Menomonee Street, between North Milwaukee and North Jackson streets, and North Lincoln Memorial Drive, from just north of East Corcoran Avenue to East Summerfest Place.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
The findings also demonstrate how skilled anthropologists have become at reconstructing ancient DNA and analyzing it to make inferences about the course of human history.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025
The National Avenue project involves reconstructing the street from South First to South 39th streets from 2026 through 2028.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Humans have largely succeeded in digitally reconstructing the Earth in order to ask what the future holds.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
In living tissue, light scattering is common, signal contrast is often low, and reconstructing intricate features across a large volume presents a significant computational challenge.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Like detectives reconstructing a crime scene or archaeologists inferring the entire shape of a pot from a minimal number of fragments, scholars of historical linguistics figure out the earlier forms that must have given rise to words in many different languages and connect the dots between them.
—Martha Barnette
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
These data points are critical in reconstructing a timeline of events, particularly in cases where physical witnesses or traditional evidence may be limited.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Other projects would include reconstructing North Water Street, between East Clybourn and East Erie streets; East Menomonee Street, between North Milwaukee and North Jackson streets, and North Lincoln Memorial Drive, from just north of East Corcoran Avenue to East Summerfest Place.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
The findings also demonstrate how skilled anthropologists have become at reconstructing ancient DNA and analyzing it to make inferences about the course of human history.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstructing
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But this White House is, in some ways, rebuilding the 20th-century model, in which powerful and faceless aides steered executives by controlling paperflow.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The o-line needs rebuilding (again), the d line still needs work, especially with Trey leaving.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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That process of recreating the set took only about an hour, which gave Cameron the freedom for easy reshoots and pickup lines.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
1 Oct. 2025
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Forte_Forte staged a fancy presentation recreating a Parisian boudoir, replete with towers of Champagne cups and highly photogenic sweet treats.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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Vought argued in it that the White House needed to take a more activist approach to cutting spending and overhauling the federal workforce.—
Franco Ordoñez,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
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Playing a facilitating role was Marc Rowan, CEO of the private equity giant Apollo Global Management, who assembled conservative scholars, academics and policymakers in 2024 to produce a document on overhauling higher education.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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New York’s 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act is re-creating the conditions under which landlords’ expenses outpace their rental income.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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However, Hiro, who counts Bradley Cooper, Gary Oldman and Charlize Theron as some of his most iconic transformations, says recreating Kerr’s prominent brow bone on Johnson was the most challenging prosthetic.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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For decades, regenerative medicine has held the promise of repairing the body at its deepest level — not simply masking symptoms, but addressing the root causes of decline, injury, and disease.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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The village’s environment department is repairing treatment plants, restoring watersheds and working on accessing federal aid.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Navigating the biz in Hollywood meant reinventing himself to prevent being boxed into comedic roles.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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Why do pop stars, designers, and everyday wearers alike keep returning to it, reinventing it, and re-admiring it?—
Shelton Boyd-Griffith,
Vogue,
2 Oct. 2025
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Lloyd Webber is ever fond of repeating his melodies, and the emotional effect comes from placing them in different registers and layering timbres on top of one another.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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Both pieces featured a repeating monogram pattern.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Reconstructing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstructing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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