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retell

[ree-tel] / riˈtɛl /








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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

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

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

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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