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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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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
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