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recount

[ri-kount] / rɪˈkaʊnt /


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During her police interviews, "it was already very difficult to recount the events for the first time", she said.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Hence, this gem of an anthology series, wherein real-life residents recount the stories that made them regionally famous or nationally infamous, while familiar actors and comedians recreate their stories.

From Salon Jul. 1, 2026

As of Tuesday, Congo reported a revised figure of 274 living Ebola patients, rather than the 1,000-plus cases reported by officials before the recount.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

Sonia Kasparian, the original designer of Roxy’s board shorts back in the mid-’90s, smiles in our recent conversation when I recount my astonishment at their discovery.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Again and again Ron and Hermione made him recount what he’d seen, until he was heartily sick of telling them and sick of the long, circular conversations that followed.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

In his 2012 autobiography "An American Son," the man oft-memed as the "viceroy" of Cuba, recounts boasting to his exiled Cuban grandfather that he would one day overthrow Fidel Castro and free Cuba.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

That debate over the declaration helped engender the equal citizenship amendments added to the 1789 Constitution at the Civil War’s end—specifically, as the Supreme Court recounts, in the 14th Amendment’s first sentence repudiating Dred Scott.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Instead, he found handwritten signs taped to the restaurant’s door: “Rebuild it. This is our home. Don’t change a thing,” recounts Katerina.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Another student recounts: “I really wanted to know what people were thinking.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere’s Ride — with an “uncanny genius for being at the center of events.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Their journey deep into hostile territory and back has been recounted by many writers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

The Loose Women presenter recounted a time where Kelly lifted something and ripped his trousers while live on air.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Prior to the school board’s June approval of the new labor contracts, the Duardo issued “express written warnings” that the “agreements were not affordable,” she recounted in her letter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

"It was just overwhelming relief and happiness and joy for him, you know, and yeah, I broke down a little bit. I even gave him a kiss on his head," DeArmas recounted with a smile.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

We took our leave of the soldiers, who with some warmth indicated the pleasure they had in making my acquaintance, so much having been recounted about myself and my mother in previous months.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But the man’s family and speakers at the vigil have said that description of events was unlikely, both because of Salgado Araujo’s nature and because they did not trust the agency’s recounting.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

The briskly paced film is equally entertaining while recounting her wild adventures of yore and while following her around Manhattan and Fire Island today.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

After recounting the various permutations of a central bank throughout American history, he concluded that the Fed’s independence constitutes a “special arrangement sanctioned by history.”

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

"One of them answers and says he's wounded in the stomach," he said, recounting how their father and another brother were using a pickaxe and a sledgehammer to try to break them free.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

I’m deeply grateful to the eight men and women I interviewed for their courage in recounting and reliving their experiences, and letting me share them in this book.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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