recall
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You may recall that this show pulled this stunt before.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
"But we didn't ever recall it being verbally said."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
But like many of my colleagues at the Journal, whose offices were catercorner from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, I recall them like they happened yesterday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some disgruntled locals called for Solomon’s recall on Facebook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
His self-satisfied expression makes me recall how people, more than exhaustion, cold nights, and hot days, made the land rush horrible and desperate.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Belfast Health Trust said on Thursday that it was wholly and unreservedly sorry to everyone who had been affected by the neurology recalls since May 2018.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“And he said, ‘Make the movie that can’t get made without you,’” she recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Lisa Kushner still recalls the fear and anxiety she felt upon learning she was pregnant.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
“He was a little ahead of me at the time,” recalls Lou.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
A Massachusetts selectman recalled that the steel sent “a funny feeling” up his arm after he laid a hand on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“It reminded me a lot of the Barack Obama bio,” Jon Favreau, Obama’s former speechwriter, recalled after seeing El-Sayed at a fundraiser.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
“The first step was to understand the extent of the decay the house had endured,” as Jacobs recalled.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
"The sense of anticipation was huge," recalled Southern.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was lower than I recalled, a dark, smoky timbre.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
"This has really been the focal point of the British Bangladeshi community," local councillor Faysal Ahmed told AFP, recalling a time when his parents ran a restaurant beneath his childhood home in the Lane.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In recalling these roots musicians, who kept the tunes alive, Mr. Wade performs a vital service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tesla, which started selling the Model S sedan with hidden door handles in China in 2014, is recalling nearly three million cars, according to the SAMR.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Everything Sprouts said Friday that it was recalling 5 oz. lidded plastic containers of alfalfa sprouts that were distributed after May 26.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
I joke, recalling the letter he once wrote and how he worried about my various travels.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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