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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

The part we would remember, would tell and retell so many times it became family folklore, was that Luke was unable to get out of his gasoline-soaked jeans.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Giant, the new film starring Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry, retells the coach and fighter's relationship.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2026

He retells the tale in his 1994 autobiography, “American Prince.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 2026

The Hulu limited series starring Grace Van Patten retells the events surrounding Amanda Knox, a woman convicted of murdering her roommate, only for the conviction to be overturned.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 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

Instead, it will be retold as something far more epic than that.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 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

And always there are mysteries in the desert, stories told and retold of secret places in the desert mountains where surviving clans from an older era wait to re-emerge.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

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

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

In the retelling of the ancient historian’s chronicle of the fifth century B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Mate and I could keep the house entertained for hours, telling and retelling the horrors until the sting was out of them.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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