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
But much like Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet,” she’s not trying to retell this famous tale; she’s reimagining it as the outsized, grand spectacle it has become in both public consciousness and personal affection.
From Salon ● Feb. 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
Before the alert was added, she frequently had to retell the story of how he was failed.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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
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Giant, the new film starring Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry, retells the coach and fighter's relationship.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 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
Osbourne retells the infamous story of orally beheading an unsuspecting bat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
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
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Instead, it will be retold as something far more epic than that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
There’s a story that is told and retold about this kind of inequality and why it “makes sense.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Chuckling as she retold the story, Fiona said: "Now do I look like the type?"
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
In a now-famous theme park moment, and one retold in the book, Atencio apologized to Disney, who shrugged off Atencio’s insecurity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
That year, 1831, when Harriet regarded herself as sufficiently grown up to wear a bandanna, she kept hearing a strange, fascinating story, told and retold, in the quarter, in the fields.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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This production feels like a fleeting moment — a reunion of friends and collaborators retelling a myth that is recounted over and over again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In his retelling of Homer’s epic poem, Nolan imagines Odysseus as a man haunted by the sacking of Troy.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Throughout his lively retelling of the story, he added a series of sound effects to move the story line — among them, wacha, pum, pum, pum, gol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Luail is an all-Ireland professional dance company and Trojans is an up-to-date retelling of The Aeneid, complete with electronic music and striking visuals.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
"You and me and Haymitch. Very cozy. Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights around the fire retelling old Hunger Games' tales."
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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