retelling
Example Sentences
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Hastings used to revel in retelling the story of the melees that broke out that day.
From BBC • May 17, 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
“As ads move into chatbots, the real competition won’t be for attention — it’ll be for how clearly your message survives retelling by AI,” Inman said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 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
At Girls' Lodge, he heard, the girls talked long into the evening, retelling their own tales to each other.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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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