retell
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Anthony Puzo, Mario Puzo's son, told Publishers Weekly: "We had been looking for someone to retell the story from a new perspective."
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Now “Five Bullets,” by Elliot Williams, and “Fear and Fury,” by Heather Ann Thompson, retell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
When Kayleigh Griffiths lost her baby daughter, Pippa, in 2016 through maternity failings in Shropshire, she had no idea how many times she would have to retell her traumatic story at future medical appointments.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
The stories we tell and retell carry the same knowing.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
For example, retell The Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the Wicked Witch.’
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Osbourne retells the infamous story of orally beheading an unsuspecting bat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The retail industry treats it like a speed bump between Halloween and Christmas, and when history retells its origins, it’s not a holiday worth protesting to keep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025
“That was a sort of a weird moment for me as a kid,” Cooper retells, “because to me, it did matter. And it's mattered ever since in a sense.”
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
Watch: “The Book of Clarence” retells the story of Jesus with irreverence, and also devotion.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
In other words, the song relives and retells the experiences of a child in another century and makes her story highly relatable to us today.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Instead, it will be retold as something far more epic than that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
There’s a story that is told and retold about this kind of inequality and why it “makes sense.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
But it’s a history that must be retold to be understood and appreciated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Baldwin and Mayall first worked together on the children's television show Grim Tales in 1989, in which Mayall retold stories by the Brothers Grimm.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
He told and retold the story of the children of Israel, and how they escaped from bondage, to a group of slaves who were his followers.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
In his retelling of Homer’s epic poem, Nolan imagines Odysseus as a man haunted by the sacking of Troy.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Throughout his lively retelling of the story, he added a series of sound effects to move the story line — among them, wacha, pum, pum, pum, gol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Hastings used to revel in retelling the story of the melees that broke out that day.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Sarnoski is the perfect person to do a retelling tilted toward the end of a rampager’s life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
They’d tell what they’d seen, embroider the rest, and with every retelling, Dirtyhands would get crazier and more ruthless.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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