recollect
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Even decades later, Jean Dornan, the protagonist of Julia Langbein’s smart, poignant and involving novel “Dear Monica Lewinsky,” can’t recollect her own first love in tranquility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
We made a registry to allow our friends and family to help us recollect the basics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Mountbatten-Windsor said at the time: "Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken."
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
I recollect that my mother left her jewelry box and its contents to me.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
It was a snowy day, I recollect, and you could not go out of doors.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Minho goes first, moving carefully as he recollects the steps to 2Pm's viral track My House, with its famous chorus: "I wanna take you to my house."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It was a very odd experience,” he recollects with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
She recollects watching the 2015 All Star Game with her granddad.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
“Cokeville recollects ‘miracle’ of 1986,” Deseret News, May 15, 2006.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2022
Michael, Terryl’s older brother, had trouble going against Danny, Patricia recollects.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Happily, Mr. Hamilton, who retains his boyish handsomeness, infuses this recollected ardor with convincing feeling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Mark Macarro, chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, recollected fellow Native Americans insisting that “Mission Indians” are not like other Indians because they don’t have treaties with the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
And even if it is recollected, mechanical recycling struggles with mixed waste streams.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2023
Kershner, the attorney, said that the officer may not have accurately recollected exactly which commands he had given Johnson, but the video shows that Johnson was not complying.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
He trotted quickly to it and left, at last, a haven of more than a year, only eight days of which he fully recollected.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2024
Queen Camilla empathised with Mr Oborne, telling him: "It must be very difficult recollecting it all."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
Like the Sto:lo, many Coast Salish groups in the Pacific Northwest have oral traditions recollecting dogs whose coiled undercoats were spun into fibers and woven into elaborately patterned blankets.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
Her style of hyperlinking in real time matches the hybrid way she works, reifying, refining and recollecting the thoughts that make a person up.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
The girl nodded, then recollecting herself she drew aside so that we could enter, came after us and stood biting her lip as if uncertain what to say.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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