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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 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'm trying to recollect when I became aware of it," she says.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2024

She looks towards the galeria, where the two empty chairs facing each other recollect the vanished speakers.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

She recollects the first day she went in for training.

From BBC Oct. 3, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

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

As Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell recollected in a speech last month, “the good ship Transitory was a crowded one, with most mainstream analysts and advanced-economy central bankers on board.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 27, 2024

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

From Slate Nov. 24, 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

Molly’s dream of a quiet summer evaporated, for the house was desperately in need of rehabilitation—“an old wreck, one of the oldest around, and built without benefit of architect” she recollected.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Miss Kenton, I thought, became visibly happier when I talked about the house and soon we were recollecting together various old memories, frequently laughing over them.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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