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[ri-sahyt] / rɪˈsaɪt /


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"I used to recite Shakespeare from memory," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

To get into a party at Stanford University, students are often asked to recite a “consent pledge” aloud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Vatican said that Pope Leo "will leave the hospital in the early afternoon and return to the Vatican. Tomorrow he will recite the Angelus prayer from the window of the papal apartment".

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

He could also recite statistics on the percentage of Iran’s missiles, ships, airplanes, etc., we’ve destroyed in the six-month war.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

So I would sit with her in the kitchen while she cooked or ironed and she would ask me to recite such and such a prayer and I would.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

On the track, Parton recites that "heartbreak sounds the same in every language".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

She recites the names of the Mexicans Guthrie envisioned on the plummeting plane — Juan, Rosalita, Jesús and María — with tenderness, not pity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

When it comes to AI, his encyclical mostly recites the most pessimistic prophecies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

We know this because Charles Dance recites Michelangelo’s snidest journal passages throughout, bringing a welcome pettiness to an otherwise staid chapter of art history.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

She clears her throat and then recites a poem from Shakespeare.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Nithya Raman slowly recited the start of her handwritten message to Angelenos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

They had the cadence of a catechism, and evolved into a set of rules recited like a prayer by Yamel, her brother and their aunt around the kitchen table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Angelus prayer is traditionally recited at the Vatican, overlooking crowds in St Peter's Square but has sometimes been given from a hospital window by previous popes when necessary.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

He told Modi that during the ordeal, he had recited a Hindu devotional prayer dedicated to the deity Hanuman.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Right before the bout started I recited a quick prayer.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

The 1974 concept album My Tennessee Mountain Home, meanwhile, is a musical autobiography that opens with Parton reciting the first letter she wrote home after moving to Nashville as a teenager.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“My kids and myself will forever walk around in a squeaky voice reciting: “Help meeee...I feeel like a yo-yo.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Students reciting Annapolis’ “Midshipman Ethos” say they’re “united by our oath to defend the Constitution,” not their background.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

On “Age of Capricorn” a buzzing voice seems to be reciting some kind of code, with strings of letters ringing out over pulsing synths and a blooming bassline redolent of a pipe organ.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

I put away my journal and lie in bed, reciting this narrative as if it is a poem I’ve decided to learn by heart.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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