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retell

[ree-tel] / riˈtɛl /








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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

She did not need to retell this story; she could have left it out completely, and unless you had been there, you wouldn’t have known that it ever happened.

From Salon Apr. 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

I really want to tell, retell, those stories.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2025

Hearing him retell it—seeing how impassive he looked in a videotape of the court proceeding, it’s hard to make sense of how singular and important the moment was for him.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Osbourne retells the infamous story of orally beheading an unsuspecting bat.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

As she retells the highs and lows of the relationship through the nightly set list, she’s faced with a decision.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

“That was a sort of a weird moment for me as a kid,” Cooper retells, “because to me, it did matter. And it's mattered ever since in a sense.”

From Salon Apr. 21, 2024

Watch: “The Book of Clarence” retells the story of Jesus with irreverence, and also devotion.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 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

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

So many moments, so many stories that will be told and retold among this generation of Dodgers fans and passed down to the next.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 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

And in the middle of Eisman’s colonoscopy, a roomful of doctors and nurses retold the story of Eisman’s genius.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

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

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

Hastings used to revel in retelling the story of the melees that broke out that day.

From BBC May 17, 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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