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recollect

[rek-uh-lekt] / ˌrɛk əˈlɛkt /


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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

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

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

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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