retelling
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Their retelling imagines the star-crossed lovers meeting later in life, repositioning the story from a perspective of age and experience, with the title characters aged in their 40s.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
I don’t know whether or not he is a narcissist, but from your retelling, he is someone who has always looked out for himself.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
Karp had spent years publicly retelling the story of how he fought to poach Barshay in 2016 from rival firm Cravath to build Paul Weiss’s then-fledging mergers and acquisitions practice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
And Percival Everett’s novel “James,” a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, took the lion’s share of the literary prizes in 2024, including the Pulitzer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
Mate and I could keep the house entertained for hours, telling and retelling the horrors until the sting was out of them.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing retelling
Literary Terms, Grade 8, Units 2–3
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Conventions, Writing to Sources, and Speaking & Listening (Unit 1)
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Additional Literary Terms, Unit 5
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