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And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

From Avar funeral customs, and from written reports of their neighbours, scholars have reconstructed some of their social practices and ways of life.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

According to the newspaper, German investigators have reconstructed the two-week voyage of the Andromeda.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

In a bleak valley not far from Greenland’s massive ice sheet, scientists have reconstructed a rich ancient ecosystem, down to its roving mastodons and smooth-barked birch trees.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 6, 2022

Very often, seeing you all so young and inexperienced, so full of vain hopes, I have reconstructed in my own mind what might be called the psychology of the cadet.

From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Gillespie, Mrs. W. A.