recounted

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Recounted travel writer H. Ellington Brook, “Everybody that could find an office went into the real-estate business ... a crowd of speculators settled down upon Los Angeles like flies upon a bowl of sugar.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Recounted the message over the phone, Brown laughs.

From Washington Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean’s picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020

It opened its 11,000-square-foot West Galleries in New York last year for auction previews and private sales and in May will show “Colombia Recounted: Contemporary Colombian Art.”

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2015

Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann