recollection
Example Sentences
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It’s bathed in sunlight that only occasionally shines on an ephemeral memory, revealing that the recollection is laced with as much honest love as regret.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
“Oh, yes, the boring religious one,” a friend said with something of a sigh, asked if she had any better recollection than I about Mary Bennet, the middle child in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
“Even in Argentina there, my recollection is there have been about three superspreader events,” said Gregory Mertz, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center who studies the hantavirus.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
"I have no recollection of impact of what happened," she tells BBC London.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
I throwed up over and over till waren’t nothing coming out of me but bitter water that I ain’t got no recollection of drinking.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Vocabulary lists containing recollection
The Cay
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The Things They Carried
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Farewell to Manzanar
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