recollect
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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
"I don't recollect that they were," she says.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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
One of them recollected with wonder the way music was “visible throughout his entire body.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
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
“It had a bunch of janky roller coasters and spinning things,” Koekkoek recollected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
The irrigation waters, recollected from the fields they have served, are then pumped into Tule Lake and from there to Lower Klamath.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
Inspired by Ferreira’s nostalgic fondness for Brazil, the sandal and slide designs are rooted in 1960s and ’70s Brazilian design, recollecting classic designer Percival Lafer and his iconic brown leather couches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing recollect
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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