recollection
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Winning the Oscar for “The Accidental Tourist” was a more pleasant recollection for Davis, although she was thrown by a bizarre incident as she was relaxing a few hours before the ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
“Even in Argentina there, my recollection is there have been about three superspreader events,” said Gregory Mertz, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center who studies the hantavirus.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Though easy to debunk, such theories persist as Artemis II comes decades after the previous lunar missions, events today's internet-savvy generation has little recollection of.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Defence Barrister John Kearney KC put it to the witness that McCullagh has no recollection of a physical row in the bathroom - "that it didn't happen."
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
That recollection, as all of those of the past few years, led him to think about the war without his realizing it.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing recollection
The Cay
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The Things They Carried
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Farewell to Manzanar
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