- past tense form of deconstruct.
- past participle of deconstruct.
deconstructed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Travel by 2046 is expected to feature personal AI agents managing trips, deconstructed airports, and biometric security replacing document checks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
To highlight this concern, Colas deconstructed the nominal daily 5-year U.S.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
The art that he created there embodies a kind of deconstructed narcissism; Samaras is fascinated with himself, but mostly as—to paraphrase the photographer Garry Winogrand’s choice of subjects—“something to be photographed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
As it hovers in the air above, we get to consider the two parts of this one-time whole and how the light changes inside this deconstructed space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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