- present tense form of recount (3rd person singular).
recounts
Example Sentences
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Cyborg doesn't have to think for long as she recounts other standout moments in her career.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I would get a part, and then I wouldn’t be able to do it,” she recounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
She recounts events from her spiritualist days, delighted when he finds the endeavor as absurd as she had at the time.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
