recollected

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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

Mark Macarro, chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, recollected fellow Native Americans insisting that “Mission Indians” are not like other Indians because they don’t have treaties with the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2024

The couple married in 1959 — Nancy, she later recollected, took three days to say yes after he proposed.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2024

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

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2023

“If I had the true historical sense,” McMillan recollected, “as soon as I woke up in the morning I would have written down in a notebook: ‘I made a big invention last night.’

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik