recounting

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In recent years, they picked up speed after the 2000 presidential election, which was so close that it took six weeks of recounting, lawsuits and a Supreme Court decision to decide the winner.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

While victims were recounting their experiences and their subsequent ongoing trauma, Davidson sat reading a book in the dock.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

“But no task that we perform in reality is just recounting already established knowledge,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

He recalls Maradona recounting how his mother, Dalma "Tota" Franco, would go without food so he could eat his fill.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

It’s a recounting of three self-selected conflicts from the timeline of wars we as a class had agreed upon.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali