retell
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Anthony Puzo, Mario Puzo's son, told Publishers Weekly: "We had been looking for someone to retell the story from a new perspective."
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Now “Five Bullets,” by Elliot Williams, and “Fear and Fury,” by Heather Ann Thompson, retell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
When Kayleigh Griffiths lost her baby daughter, Pippa, in 2016 through maternity failings in Shropshire, she had no idea how many times she would have to retell her traumatic story at future medical appointments.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
The stories we tell and retell carry the same knowing.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
Suesetta and I retell the whole conversation to each other, like we need to hear it again in order to understand what just happened.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
He retells the tale in his 1994 autobiography, “American Prince.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Roberto José Andrade Franco retells the saga of Oscar De La Hoya versus Julio Cesar Chávez, landing less on the side of the former than pointing out the assimilationist façade of the Golden Boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
It retells the story using interviews and a great deal of footage from the actual show, which underlines how innovative it was.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
The design retells Raymond Briggs' classic children's book about James, a young boy who builds a snowman that comes to life.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023
In other words, the song relives and retells the experiences of a child in another century and makes her story highly relatable to us today.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Instead, it will be retold as something far more epic than that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
It’s a story that’s been retold in recent weeks amid the Andes virus outbreak on a cruise ship to show how outbreaks sometimes lead to scientific breakthroughs.
From MarketWatch ● May 17, 2026
She’s made something different from your typical adaptation, a movie that brings a fresh perspective to a very old and frequently retold tale.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Now, as it celebrates its centenary, staff have been looking back on the company's role in developing a treatment for a rare degenerative condition affecting young boys – a story retold in a Hollywood film.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
Herbie retold his story about traveling to Mexico, Japan, and Germany and returning to America on a U-boat.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
In a summer dominated by a retelling of history’s most well-known monster-plagued sea voyage, “The Devil’s Mouth” may seem like a mere bagatelle, a non-Imax drop in the brine ‘n’ blood-splattered hero’s journey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
His movie is a remarkable piece of autofiction, retelling his first experience with air travel as if it were a love story.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
Sarnoski is the perfect person to do a retelling tilted toward the end of a rampager’s life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
The image remains inescapable for Parry as it reappears with every anniversary and retelling of the Aberfan disaster.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Professor Trelawney seemed to consider the matter for a moment, but Harry could tell that she liked the idea of retelling her little adventure.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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