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
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 don't recollect that they were," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024
“I recollect she pointed. I just followed where her point went. There be a path. But it’s horrid far.”
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing recollect
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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