recollecting

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“I’m an old guy, right? I’m not old, but I’m old,” Robert Plant offers up, recollecting a charmed musical life that began in 1960s England in his early teens.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2024

Queen Camilla empathised with Mr Oborne, telling him: "It must be very difficult recollecting it all."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 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

The girl nodded, then recollecting herself she drew aside so that we could enter, came after us and stood biting her lip as if uncertain what to say.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya