recount
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The BBC sat down with the duo to recount the day full of excitement and hurdles.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
More than 2,500 ballots had been misplaced in the original count, but were found while doing the recount.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Investigators should pursue witnesses, physical and digital evidence, and the accounts and actions of alleged perpetrators rather than repeatedly requiring a survivor to recount a traumatic event unnecessarily.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mr. Riley skillfully selects recollections that highlight the staff’s uncertainty during the protracted postelection fight over Florida’s recount.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I’d never recount the contents of a business deal to another party!”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Recounts can be requested by candidates in close races, and in some states recounts are automatically triggered if they fall within a certain margin.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Throughout the book, Krakauer recounts his attempt to summit Mount Everest the year earlier in what would become, at the time, the mountain’s deadliest season.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
In 1686, at least one now contested-account recounts the story of Sir John Knight, a devout anti-Catholic, busting into the church of St. Michael in Bristol, England, during services with a gun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Fielder recounts that, during a meeting where cameras were not present, Evans asked him, Oppenheim and two A24 executives if the couple could get a share of the film’s eventual box office proceeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Jus, with tears in his eyes, recounts the final minutes of Manny’s life, and for a second he’s tempted to relax, especially when Doc gives him a thumbs-up from where he’s sitting.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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Professional investors who spoke with MarketWatch recounted examples where expectations were dashed by actual returns.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Bambino’s story is one of many amusing anecdotes recounted by Susannah Fullerton in “Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them,” a charming catalog of felines who have helped shape Western literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
At the Fonda, Adéla recounted moving here from her native Slovakia and working alongside the show’s other contestants to “try to become pop stars together,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The actress became visibly emotional as she recounted the events of the crypt and attempted to justify grabbing the shield before offering it to Fry.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Grandmother rocked back and forth, wailing with grief, when she recounted the story.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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"I stood in Stourbridge and watched families lose everything," he said on Thursday, recounting the night of a wildfire that destroyed 19 homes in the West Midlands in August.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
“The way I perceive and think about these issues in our current social context colors my reading and recounting of history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“It was a little hard for me to breathe, and my eyes started burning a lot,” she said in Spanish, recounting the incident to a reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Welles’s voice returns as Professor Pierson, recounting the days since the great Martian attack.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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