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
"I'm trying to recollect when I became aware of it," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024
She looks towards the galeria, where the two empty chairs facing each other recollect the vanished speakers.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing recollect
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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