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retell

[ree-tel] / riˈtɛl /








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These people were someone’s bandmate, roommate, and friend, and Thayil’s ability to convey those feelings and that grief had to be difficult to retell and get on the page.

From Salon Jun. 9, 2026

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

In the years since Gemma first went to the police, she has had to retell her story to more than 20 different officers, she says.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

Mr. Morrison, coming home, would tell of the day and get listened to, and he would try to retell the drummer’s stories—some of them at least.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Osbourne retells the infamous story of orally beheading an unsuspecting bat.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

It is based on a 1995 novel of the same name, which retells the story of “The Wizard of Oz” in a revisionist light, with the wicked witch as the main character.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2024

It retells the story using interviews and a great deal of footage from the actual show, which underlines how innovative it was.

From New York Times May 3, 2024

“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

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

There’s a story that is told and retold about this kind of inequality and why it “makes sense.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

So many moments, so many stories that will be told and retold among this generation of Dodgers fans and passed down to the next.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

She’s made something different from your typical adaptation, a movie that brings a fresh perspective to a very old and frequently retold tale.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2026

Chuckling as she retold the story, Fiona said: "Now do I look like the type?"

From BBC Jan. 10, 2026

But the story that occupied my mind for the longest time, the story that I retold over and over, was about a baby elephant named Boo.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

The line became reenergerized while laying on the ground and started several fires, according to a retelling of the video in a July court filing by lawyers representing victims.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

A cinematic retelling of Homer’s epic is not a particularly original idea.

From Salon Jul. 22, 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

Psychoanalysis, Mr. Phillips suggests, can support this pragmatist approach by helping us navigate that retelling.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

But just to make sure the attention didn’t stray too far from her, Vonetta became Little Miss Ethel Waters and practiced the next day’s retelling for Ma Charles.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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