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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

Lazlo wasn’t thinking about the moths—though he did recollect, now, the one that had fallen dead from his brow on his first morning waking up in Weep.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Minho goes first, moving carefully as he recollects the steps to 2Pm's viral track My House, with its famous chorus: "I wanna take you to my house."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

She recollects fishing Vogue magazines out of trash cans around age 6 and feeling “a deep affinity” with the images on their pages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2023

Rather, Lerner is working a seam between what is recollected and what is imagined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Kershner, the attorney, said that the officer may not have accurately recollected exactly which commands he had given Johnson, but the video shows that Johnson was not complying.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

I couldn’t think at first what would make the sort of light I needed, then recollected a clump of bear grass that Mama’d recently grubbed out, where she wanted to start a new fall garden.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 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

Inspired by Ferreira’s nostalgic fondness for Brazil, the sandal and slide designs are rooted in 1960s and ’70s Brazilian design, recollecting classic designer Percival Lafer and his iconic brown leather couches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Her style of hyperlinking in real time matches the hybrid way she works, reifying, refining and recollecting the thoughts that make a person up.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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