recounted

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Speaking at Hay Festival on Thursday, she recounted how getting permission to have fabrics sent to her offered a lifeline, not just for her but also fellow inmates.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Dame Prue Leith has recounted the time she called the editor of the Michelin Guide to demand an answer to why her restaurant hadn't received a star.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

“She saw the show early, and she was just totally taken. I think she said something like, ‘Alicia, you made this young thug cry,’” Keys recounted.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

"It's very difficult, it is breaking my heart to wait for something uncertain," 47-year-old Casilao said, crying as she recounted how she slept alone at a local government building overnight Sunday.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

The two other doctors agreed, and then all three recounted the symptoms they had seen.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy