reciting
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We get our words “rhapsody” and “rhapsodic” from performers in ancient Greece who went around reciting epic poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
Trump showed Xi videos of his granddaughter singing in Mandarin and reciting classical Chinese poetry, to which Xi responded that the girl deserved an "A+".
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Some accounts state that pretzels were a sort of reward, handed out by monks to their young postulants for learning and correctly reciting their prayers.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
He explored every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades’ incantation aloud.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
