recollect
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We made a registry to allow our friends and family to help us recollect the basics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Those are words that penetrate, ones that recollect certain names and call forth our senses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
I recollect that my mother left her jewelry box and its contents to me.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
I just assume he couldn't recollect or revel in discussions about Count Basie and Duke Ellington and sitting on the bandstand and blowing trumpet with many other people, especially in Hollywood.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
I could recollect having promised some God or other, more than once, that if I could only have Anatole back I would never ask for another thing on this earth.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The journalist recollects that all this was happening in complete darkness, as the pilot turned off the spotlight.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023
She recollects watching the 2015 All Star Game with her granddad.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
“Cokeville recollects ‘miracle’ of 1986,” Deseret News, May 15, 2006.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
“Terryl, say good-bye to your little brother,” she recollects him saying.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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A Korean-American boy’s experience of a world unlike the urban playground of his ordinary life is recollected from the bittersweet perspective of adulthood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
And even if it is recollected, mechanical recycling struggles with mixed waste streams.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2023
Discussing his time at school, Spielberg said his "only ticket" to popularity was making small movies and recollected getting the captain of the football team to dedicate a whole Saturday to star in a film.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022
Emotion, recollected in tranquility, is alchemized into touching comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
“Some of the professors here recollected him as being a scamp,” the university said.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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“Before the fire was even reported, I walked outside and I smelled the fire,” Dudelson says, recollecting details over the phone, with his girlfriend by his side to corroborate the account.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025
Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2024
Queen Camilla empathised with Mr Oborne, telling him: "It must be very difficult recollecting it all."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
Like the Sto:lo, many Coast Salish groups in the Pacific Northwest have oral traditions recollecting dogs whose coiled undercoats were spun into fibers and woven into elaborately patterned blankets.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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