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recount

[ri-kaunt] / rɪˈkaʊnt /


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The BBC sat down with the duo to recount the day full of excitement and hurdles.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

More than 2,500 ballots had been misplaced in the original count, but were found while doing the recount.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Investigators should pursue witnesses, physical and digital evidence, and the accounts and actions of alleged perpetrators rather than repeatedly requiring a survivor to recount a traumatic event unnecessarily.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rather than recount the painful imagery of the attack and its aftermath, the authors describe the memorial projects born from the recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Besides, I like having her recount the day to me.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Tight races will take longer, and create the possibility of recounts being triggered and legal challenges.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Throughout the book, Krakauer recounts his attempt to summit Mount Everest the year earlier in what would become, at the time, the mountain’s deadliest season.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

In 1686, at least one now contested-account recounts the story of Sir John Knight, a devout anti-Catholic, busting into the church of St. Michael in Bristol, England, during services with a gun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Fielder recounts that, during a meeting where cameras were not present, Evans asked him, Oppenheim and two A24 executives if the couple could get a share of the film’s eventual box office proceeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

He then methodically recounts the money once, twice, three times.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Professional investors who spoke with MarketWatch recounted examples where expectations were dashed by actual returns.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Stephen Mwiti, 48, recounted losing all six of his children to the cult and seeing "many bald women and tens of children" surrounding Mackenzie in his house when he went to confront him.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Bambino’s story is one of many amusing anecdotes recounted by Susannah Fullerton in “Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them,” a charming catalog of felines who have helped shape Western literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Emma recounted the whole story: how Miss Peregrine was kidnapped by Golan, how she nearly drowned in her cage in the ocean, how we’d rescued her from a submarine piloted by wights.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

"I stood in Stourbridge and watched families lose everything," he said on Thursday, recounting the night of a wildfire that destroyed 19 homes in the West Midlands in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

“It was a little hard for me to breathe, and my eyes started burning a lot,” she said in Spanish, recounting the incident to a reporter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

We understand Paul’s fatal bravado in tenor Michael Kuhn’s jaunty recounting of a race with a rabbit that ends with him crashing his car—it’s a performance designed to deflect Norman’s offer of help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

And, unfortunately, at that moment I realized that all my pee-mantra meditations with Mr. Farrow and the recounting of the story actually did make me want to pee, but I wasn’t about to move, either.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith


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