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as in repaired

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verb

past tense of rebuild
as in reconstructed
to put into good shape again after having been destroyed or damaged It took a long time to rebuild the ruined house after the hurricane.

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Recent Examples of rebuilt
Adjective
Triarchy stopped using conventional methods for denim production in 2016, halting production for 18 months before relaunching in 2018 with a rebuilt system that produced the first plastic-free stretch denim in 2022. — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 This season was supposed to be different with a rebuilt defense. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Pope Francis had refused repeatedly to make a proper state visit to France during his 12-year pontificate and pointedly refused to join the inauguration of the rebuilt Notre Dame cathedral in 2024. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 The rebuilt 90,000-seat stadium, which opened in 2007, remains the home of England’s national teams and one of the sport’s most recognizable stages. — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 San Francisco cruised to a 27-7 victory over the Rams and their rebuilt defense in Australia. — Mike Sando, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The sunken living room bridges the rebuilt 1930s house and its new addition. — Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2026 During Thursday's announcement, Hochul warned that the state is increasing its efforts to combat auto insurance fraud, including through a new cross-agency task force and a rebuilt insurance fraud bureau. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 On Wednesday morning, WJZ cameras captured a massive crane lifting a support pylon for the rebuilt bridge into place. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
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Vucic’s ousting shows the downside of that approach, as the whole relationship will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026 Nothing was stable, every framework was being rebuilt in real time and the only thing that separated functional teams from struggling ones was behavioral reliability under extreme ambiguity. — Amy Alexy, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 The brick-like look and modular philosophy are still here, but the internals have been rebuilt around a newer, faster sensor, with a far stronger push into cinema territory. — New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2026 That’s a testament primarily to offensive line coach Zach Hanson, who, in his fifth season, has now fully rebuilt the room in his image. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 As with all its cars, the donor vehicle that became the Brundle Edition Turbo was stripped down to its chassis and rebuilt with modern components inspired by the originals. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026 The mobile release includes the base game, rebuilt for touch and vertical play. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026 After the 2024 flooding damaged the track, the culverts had been rebuilt with a $16 million public investment authorized by New Mexico’s Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham. — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026 Conservatives above all should understand that what breaks is not easily rebuilt. — Nathan Bruschi, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebuilt
  1. repaired
  2. reconstructed
  3. rehabilitated
  4. restored
Adjective
  • The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of repaired
Verb
  • By stringing multiple kill dates of moss samples taken from different spots, scientists reconstructed a map of an advancing ice margin.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The team reconstructed the evolutionary history of GxpS, the enzyme that produces GameXPeptides, to investigate how different peptide structures evolved.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of reconstructed
Verb
  • The 220-pound Pacific walrus calf, named Annautaq, traveled 4,000 miles to Central Florida after being rescued by wildlife experts and rehabilitated at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Few styles have been rehabilitated as successfully as the cargo pant.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of rehabilitated
Verb
  • The two-story, Georgian stone building that was originally built around 1680 was destroyed by an earthquake in 1840 and was last restored in 1983.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Once service is restored, customers may notice discolored water or air in their pipes.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
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