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recollect

[rek-uh-lekt] / ˌrɛk əˈlɛkt /


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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

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

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

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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