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retell

[ree-tel] / riˈtɛl /








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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

She has always trusted that her readers and followers would be able to pay attention and keep up, but after more than 50 years, she is right to want to retell her stories.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025

I really want to tell, retell, those stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

Suesetta and I retell the whole conversation to each other, like we need to hear it again in order to understand what just happened.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

He retells his memories with an unflinching gaze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Unfolding under the theatrical auspices of Imeldific, “Here Lies Love” retells the history of the Marcos years as a musical pageant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

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

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

His grandmother retold rose-tinted stories of building aircraft equipment during World War II before being forcibly relegated back to her domestic life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

Harriet Tubman heard the stories about the rescue of Shadrach, and of Jerry, about the return of Thomas Sims to Georgia, talked about, told and retold.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Maas's series debuted in 2015 as a dark retelling of "Beauty and the Beast."

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

While your brother-in-law’s behavior does sound a bit caustic, at least by your retelling, I urge you to de-center yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

In a summer dominated by a retelling of history’s most well-known monster-plagued sea voyage, “The Devil’s Mouth” may seem like a mere bagatelle, a non-Imax drop in the brine ‘n’ blood-splattered hero’s journey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

It was a tale that she relished retelling, and her rich accounts shed plenty of light on what happened next.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield


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