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reconstruct

to build up a picture of a past event from the evidence that remains

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Six example sentences with reconstruct, each labelled with its topic.

  • Investigators tried to reconstruct the evening from receipts and phone records, placing each person somewhere between six and midnight.

    Law

  • From three letters and a ship's manifest, she could reconstruct the whole voyage, including the week they waited for wind.

    History

  • Witnesses reconstruct events rather than replay them, which is why two honest people remember the same street corner differently.

    Psychology

  • From tree rings and lake mud, researchers can reconstruct a summer that happened four thousand years ago.

    Science

  • Coaches reconstruct the final possession from three camera angles to see who actually lost the shooter.

    Basketball

  • The doctor asked her to reconstruct the week before the fever, meal by meal and trip by trip.

    Medicine

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