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recollect

[rek-uh-lekt] / ˌrɛk əˈlɛkt /


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We made a registry to allow our friends and family to help us recollect the basics.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

I recollect that my mother left her jewelry box and its contents to me.

From MarketWatch Dec. 4, 2025

He additionally shared that he could recollect "one conversation" in which Wade said he was romantically involved with Willis.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2024

"When you get older, you think back to the past, and you try to recollect what has happened, and you're almost eaten by the past rather than the present."

From BBC Jan. 26, 2024

“I remember the year 1914 all right, but don’t recollect any archduke or much about the World War,” I said to Richard.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

There is excitement in her eyes, her blonde braids swing back and forth as she recollects villa drama, late-night group chats and fierce online skirmishes, like a war veteran sharing combat stories.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2025

“It was a visceral, magnificent moment that made me feel connected,” he recollects with the calm intensity of someone deeply in love with a tree.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2023

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

“Terryl, say good-bye to your little brother,” she recollects him saying.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

One of them recollected with wonder the way music was “visible throughout his entire body.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The couple married in 1959 — Nancy, she later recollected, took three days to say yes after he proposed.

From Seattle Times Jan. 28, 2024

And even if it is recollected, mechanical recycling struggles with mixed waste streams.

From Slate Nov. 24, 2023

Discussing his time at school, Spielberg said his "only ticket" to popularity was making small movies and recollected getting the captain of the football team to dedicate a whole Saturday to star in a film.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2022

He recollected that on a good day in winter, when the maple trees stood bare, he could look through his dormer window out beyond the trees and see the green salt water to the southwest.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.

From Slate Jun. 18, 2024

“We were scared out of our wits,” Dr. Breman, recollecting his pioneer mission, told a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2014, as a new and even deadlier Ebola outbreak raged that year.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 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

Given all the fond memories he had with the team, though, and the soft smile he wore while recollecting on his time with the Dodgers, it certainly wouldn’t have been an easy no.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2023

He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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