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recollect

[rek-uh-lekt] / ˌrɛk əˈlɛkt /


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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'd consider it a good day if I go home and don't recollect any kind of aggressive behaviour towards the learner driver sat next to me," she says.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2025

He additionally shared that he could recollect "one conversation" in which Wade said he was romantically involved with Willis.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2024

“If they argue—and all loving couples argue—they’ll never be alone to recollect themselves, to find ways to forgive each other.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

“It was a very odd experience,” he recollects with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

He recollects that - together with diving partner Brian and Russian pilot Viktor - they went down in a small Russian submersible lowered from the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh research ship.

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

Michael, Terryl’s older brother, had trouble going against Danny, Patricia recollects.

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

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

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

But now he picked up the receiver, and experimentally let his fingers dial; and sure enough, he found that they recollected easily what his mind had strained uselessly to remember.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

“We were scared out of our wits,” Dr. Breman, recollecting his pioneer mission, told a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2014, as a new and even deadlier Ebola outbreak raged that year.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 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




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