retell
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Anthony Puzo, Mario Puzo's son, told Publishers Weekly: "We had been looking for someone to retell the story from a new perspective."
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Now “Five Bullets,” by Elliot Williams, and “Fear and Fury,” by Heather Ann Thompson, retell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Before the alert was added, she frequently had to retell the story of how he was failed.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
The stories we tell and retell carry the same knowing.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
Suesetta and I retell the whole conversation to each other, like we need to hear it again in order to understand what just happened.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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Osbourne retells the infamous story of orally beheading an unsuspecting bat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The Hulu limited series starring Grace Van Patten retells the events surrounding Amanda Knox, a woman convicted of murdering her roommate, only for the conviction to be overturned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
It retells America’s early political history through jam-packed raps and musical numbers that hurtle through genres including hip-hop, pop and R&B.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
It retells the story using interviews and a great deal of footage from the actual show, which underlines how innovative it was.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
In other words, the song relives and retells the experiences of a child in another century and makes her story highly relatable to us today.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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There’s a story that is told and retold about this kind of inequality and why it “makes sense.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Baldwin and Mayall first worked together on the children's television show Grim Tales in 1989, in which Mayall retold stories by the Brothers Grimm.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
So many moments, so many stories that will be told and retold among this generation of Dodgers fans and passed down to the next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
I’d told and retold Miss Sadie's last story and what I’d learned from Hattie Mae's news auxiliary to Lettie and Ruthanne.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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In his retelling of Homer’s epic poem, Nolan imagines Odysseus as a man haunted by the sacking of Troy.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
His movie is a remarkable piece of autofiction, retelling his first experience with air travel as if it were a love story.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
The image remains inescapable for Parry as it reappears with every anniversary and retelling of the Aberfan disaster.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
She could be wryly funny about the impossibility of escaping her past; in time, her exasperation with endlessly retelling the story of her childhood became an aspect of the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
As for the boom, it had become a faraway blur, a kind of confused, powerful, contradictory dream that made some people chuckle and others wince in the retelling of it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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