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Even decades later, Jean Dornan, the protagonist of Julia Langbein’s smart, poignant and involving novel “Dear Monica Lewinsky,” can’t recollect her own first love in tranquility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

While aphantasics think about memories, other people are able to recollect and live those memories.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2024

Do you recollect the magnificent lines at the beginning of "Paradise Lost"? The lecturer was lucid in his allusions.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

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

Given what’s recollected in director Michael Pack’s documentary, it seems that very little will ever be forgotten, certainly not by those who fought the battles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

And even if it is recollected, mechanical recycling struggles with mixed waste streams.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2023

Abby therefore spends the night imagining her way through the various rooms of her own life, attempting to attach each beat of her speech to a recollected physical space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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

Sergeant Maples recollected for the court his astonishment in early 1943 when the 442nd—composed of Nisei boys—began training at Camp Shelby.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

It’s not much in vogue these days to quote Joe Biden, but the former president used to say something worth recollecting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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

The girl nodded, then recollecting herself she drew aside so that we could enter, came after us and stood biting her lip as if uncertain what to say.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya