recall
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"I recall putting my hand on her waist," he told the court.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Representatives for produce giant Taylor Farms contacted the White House with an urgent plea: the company wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The FDA, however, doubled down on the severity of the investigation, saying in an X post that the false positive doesn’t change “the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
On X, the FDA stated, “To clarify, this false positive lab sample does not change the basis for FDA’s ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
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Adrian recalls a snafu from the Munich Film Festival, but can’t quite remember the details.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Michigan Chief Medical Executive Natasha Bagdasarian said that no such recalls had been ordered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
She recalls other witches from folk tales like Baba Yaga, frightening characters but also, she says, “women possessing an innocence that had been eroded over the years by the harshness of life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Morishita recalls having been electrified by a performance she had seen by Mikiko Matsuyama, who founded the company in 1948.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“That bicycle got us as far as Suwon, where we found my gomo,” Grandma recalls.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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Of the last, Simon recalled lying like a starfish “while nothing inside is telling you to get up, read, watch, sing, call someone, or do much of anything at all.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
In fact, he recalled coming around from a coma in hospital amid a dream that a surfboard came between him and a bright light "like you see in the movies".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
"We slept three hours a night and worked in shifts," she recalled.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
“What happened on Christmas Day can only be described as an atrocity,” one mother recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“She had admirers, but she fancied Holt Nickerson,” Pa recalled.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Taylor Farms is recalling iceberg lettuce that was grown in central Mexico after reports that lettuce may be the cause of the multistate cyclospora outbreak.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
She laughed recalling how Hamawy returned to Gaza on another medical mission after all of her efforts to help get him out.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Many argue from memory, recalling their students’ skills before the tests were eliminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Here, he realizes a triptych of vivid musical postcards recalling the American past: “The Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common,” a hazy conjuring of Civil War ghosts embodied by a memorial to Col.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Yes. I have just asked them to get me a sleeper. It was my intention to remain here some days, but I have received a telegram recalling me to England on important business.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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