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
She did not need to retell this story; she could have left it out completely, and unless you had been there, you wouldn’t have known that it ever happened.
From Salon • Apr. 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
The sagas retell stories from the Viking era, but were written hundreds of years after the events, from 1200 onwards.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025
Our world had been turned upside down, and now we had to retell our horror story.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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Conventions, Writing to Sources, and Speaking & Listening, Unit 1
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