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as in to rebuild
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 to recreate
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 reconstruct
Written and directed by Pérez Rial, the film reconstructs the exile of Sosa, who was arrested during a 1978 concert in La Plata and later forced to flee Argentina’s dictatorship.
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Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits, the press release added.
—Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
The town gradually raised the money not just to reconstruct it but to enlarge and improve it, adding new facilities for disabled children.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Police body cam footage recreates the months that led up to the tragic shooting, reconstructing the tale of a woman who frequently complained about the neighborhood's kids and hurled racial slurs at them before claiming the life of one of their mothers.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
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Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits, the press release added.
—Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
The town gradually raised the money not just to reconstruct it but to enlarge and improve it, adding new facilities for disabled children.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Police body cam footage recreates the months that led up to the tragic shooting, reconstructing the tale of a woman who frequently complained about the neighborhood's kids and hurled racial slurs at them before claiming the life of one of their mothers.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstruct
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The eventual compromise saw the government move his house, brick-by-brick, and rebuild it in the opposite river bank.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Exterior walls of the tunnel are being rebuilt to fix drainage issues.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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What To Know ICE leaders in these cities were relieved of their jobs and moved to other posts within the federal agency on Friday, with the DHS quietly beginning to overhaul its mass deportation operation over the weekend.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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The State Building Commission will take up the first steps toward overhauling the state's prisons this week.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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The star recreated her iconic Madonna cone bra Halloween costume from the 1993 Disney classic.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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Perfect for history buffs, the village recreates what life was like for settlers in Salem during the 1600s.—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Putin created the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives four years later, which finances exhibitions, festivals, and art that rehabilitate Moscow’s image both at home and abroad.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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In total, the Ventana Wildlife Society — a group that traps, breeds and rehabilitates the vultures for release into the wild — has tracked 30 different condors that took multiple trips to parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties sometime in the past two years.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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But throughout the course of the film, Morgan takes a hammer to it all, trying to reinvent this space into something more her.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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The teen slasher is reinvented yet again, with an eye toward diversity and mythology.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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North Korean officials had told them that Megumi died in 1994 from suicide, a claim repeated by her daughter.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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The New York Yankees failed to repeat as American League champions this year.—
Aaliyan Mohammed,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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The Italian fashion house reimagined the timeless silhouette popularized in the 1950s with a high-shine gold coin detail and an embossed logo on the tongue.—
Kelsey Stewart,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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Fueled by Cold War rivalry and boundless optimism, engineers and scientists reimagined everything (from cars and planes to construction and warfare) through the lens of nuclear power.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Reconstruct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconstruct. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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