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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

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

The stories we tell and retell carry the same knowing.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

While making New Year’s resolutions, we also count our blessings and retell stories about the past year and the lessons we have learned and what we can do to be better this year.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

The retail industry treats it like a speed bump between Halloween and Christmas, and when history retells its origins, it’s not a holiday worth protesting to keep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025

It retells America’s early political history through jam-packed raps and musical numbers that hurtle through genres including hip-hop, pop and R&B.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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

There’s a story that is told and retold about this kind of inequality and why it “makes sense.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

But it’s a history that must be retold to be understood and appreciated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Baldwin and Mayall first worked together on the children's television show Grim Tales in 1989, in which Mayall retold stories by the Brothers Grimm.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

This editorial is hard to read, but unless we want to experience similar terror-driven antisemitic outrages in the future, the truth must be told and retold to and by people of good will.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

This idea is the basis of the origin story of the United States, a story that, like a myth, has been retold for hundreds of years.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

While your brother-in-law’s behavior does sound a bit caustic, at least by your retelling, I urge you to de-center yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

A cinematic retelling of Homer’s epic is not a particularly original idea.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Hedge began retelling the story, but in his version Piper was a kung fu assassin and there were a lot more Boreads.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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