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Recent Examples of recitation
These audio summaries aren’t robotic recitations of facts.
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Roger Dooley, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Explaining the convoluted document would require nothing less than a long recitation of Catholic history.
—Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
This recitation of names creates a powerful ritual.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
But his granular chronology of Calhoun’s activities sometimes slides too deep into a recitation of media coverage, conference talks and intricate experiments.
—Ben Goldfarb, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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Roger Dooley, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Explaining the convoluted document would require nothing less than a long recitation of Catholic history.
—Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
This recitation of names creates a powerful ritual.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
But his granular chronology of Calhoun’s activities sometimes slides too deep into a recitation of media coverage, conference talks and intricate experiments.
—Ben Goldfarb, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recitation
Noun
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Natalie Cressman had transcribed the piece for her Manhattan School of Music senior recital in 2012.Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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For those with more energy, there are classes and lectures on all aspects of wellbeing, alongside regular recitals – a nod to Otto's belief that starving the mind while denying the body is no way to live.Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The repetition of it was intimidating at first, but has now become almost sort of like therapeutic.Jeff Conway, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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This line is reflexively repeated by pundits, talkers, and thinkers on both sides of the American political divide, and that repetition always engenders a great deal of backlash.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Each transaction is assigned a real-time risk score that helps detect and prevent enumeration attacks in transactions where a purchase is processed remotely without a physical card via a card reader or terminal.Sheila Chiang, CNBC, 26 July 2024
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The Supreme Court has long since stopped enforcing the Founders’ intention that the federal government be limited by the enumeration of Congress’s powers.George F. Will, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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After a long litany of failures stretching back for years now, few have any confidence that whatever follows will do the job.Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The rally also featured a litany of racist, sexist and vulgar rhetoric from speakers that caused widespread outcry.Ivana Saric, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Recitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recitation. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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