recollect
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Even decades later, Jean Dornan, the protagonist of Julia Langbein’s smart, poignant and involving novel “Dear Monica Lewinsky,” can’t recollect her own first love in tranquility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
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
Not only does this reduce the administrative burden, but it means the government doesn't have to design a system to recollect, store and process this information all over again.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The MTA, he would recollect, “occupied most of my time for the next two years. It was not a happy time.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The journalist recollects that all this was happening in complete darkness, as the pilot turned off the spotlight.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
Michael, Terryl’s older brother, had trouble going against Danny, Patricia recollects.
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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Given what’s recollected in director Michael Pack’s documentary, it seems that very little will ever be forgotten, certainly not by those who fought the battles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
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
Abby therefore spends the night imagining her way through the various rooms of her own life, attempting to attach each beat of her speech to a recollected physical space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
I recollected small incidents and adventures in Orlando when she was a baby, and how she had rarely cried even when she was small.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
For the documentary, Shatner said he challenged himself to go beyond recollecting career accolades and worked to find a new way of looking at his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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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