as in reconstruction
the act, process, or result of changing again
The planning board has laid out a proposal for the reconversion of the converted paper mills.
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Recent Examples of reconversion
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.
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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.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez,
National Review,
19 July 2021
Today and for 40 years the ancient quarries have known an artistic reconversion.
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Cécilia Pelloux,
Forbes,
7 May 2021
Black Metropolis appeared as World War II neared its end, with U.S. political leaders fiercely debating the best ways to bring about civilian reconversion and reconstruction.
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Adolph Reed Jr.,
The New Republic,
8 Dec. 2020
Erdogan presented the reconversion of Hagia Sophia not simply as an act of piety or the rectification of a historic injustice but as a defense of Turkey’s sovereignty.
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Nick Danforth,
Foreign Affairs,
31 July 2020
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
Today and for 40 years the ancient quarries have known an artistic reconversion.
—
Cécilia Pelloux,
Forbes,
7 May 2021
Black Metropolis appeared as World War II neared its end, with U.S. political leaders fiercely debating the best ways to bring about civilian reconversion and reconstruction.
—
Adolph Reed Jr.,
The New Republic,
8 Dec. 2020
Erdogan presented the reconversion of Hagia Sophia not simply as an act of piety or the rectification of a historic injustice but as a defense of Turkey’s sovereignty.
—
Nick Danforth,
Foreign Affairs,
31 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconversion
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Because kids aren’t fully grown yet, their skeletal systems require surgeries tailored to each child’s specific growth and developmental stages, meaning a 15-year-old won’t receive the same kind of knee reconstruction surgery as a 60-year-old — or even as a 12-year-old.
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At $8 billion, basic reconstruction costs surpassed the country’s total economic output.
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The move to complete liquid cooling also required a major server redesign.
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As the redesign begins, human oversight should be strengthened where decisions are difficult to reverse or carry a material risk.
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Cuba’s Communist Party has approved 176 free‑market measures, which are described as the most sweeping economic overhaul since the revolution, dismantling pillars of state control and decentralizing a system battered by crisis.
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Observers on Friday called Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Raúl Castro said in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward.
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Years after his dad’s reformation, Jonah sits on a bench at the Broncos’ practice facility in Dove Valley, gazing out at the green expanse of his future.
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Friends since first grade and bandmates since high school, the two 32-year-old Rogers Park natives and founding members of the then-dormant Chicago indie-rock band Twin Peaks weren’t at the Pilsen venue scouting locations for a potential reformation.
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Horvath said the county hopes to receive tens of millions of dollars in state funding for additional brush clearance, fuel modification, home hardening and other initiatives.
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These modifications are specific, positional and increasingly mappable.
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