recollect
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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
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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
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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
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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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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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