recollection
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“Oh, yes, the boring religious one,” a friend said with something of a sigh, asked if she had any better recollection than I about Mary Bennet, the middle child in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 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
In a previous statement, in 2024, she expressed her "deepest sorrow" but said she had "no recollection of what took place".
From BBC • Apr. 14, 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
I have no such recollection of ever having mistakenly engraved a name on any tombstone, let alone a name as ridiculous as Proky.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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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