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to give an oral or written account of in some detail
a novel that recounted an American soldier's adventures among the samurai warriors of 19th-century Japan
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Recent Examples of recount
Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
Mulligan was also happy to recount her affection for some of her other co-stars, ticking through them with glee.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
Stephen McGrath The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Bucharest annulled the results of the first round of the election, opted for a rerun, and ordered a recount.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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Teachers recounted having students who were afraid to come to school.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
Mulligan was also happy to recount her affection for some of her other co-stars, ticking through them with glee.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
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Following a recount, the court then validated the first-round results on Monday.
—Stephen McGrath The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Bucharest annulled the results of the first round of the election, opted for a rerun, and ordered a recount.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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The report describes increases in applications, not students, so can be skewed by students applying to a greater number of colleges.—
Scott White,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Oftentimes, activewear that describes itself as figure-flatting, body-hugging, butt-lifting, form-fitting, or sculpting achieves such results but at the expense of comfort.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
14 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, the infrastructure would need to be maintained and the amounts collected will not practically scale to the amount of water used by large communities.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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Emergency management was working through the damage Saturday morning, but Robert Myers with the Butler County Emergency Management Agency said daylight would give them a better idea of the amount of destruction.—
Melissa Griffin,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2025
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Beth McGroarty, the research director at the Global Wellness Institute, tells CNBC Make It that the trend may be fueled by a human desire for tactile experiences rather than by nostalgia.—
Nicolas Vega,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2025
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McKinzie was initially arrested in the Nickerson Gardens public housing apartment complex on suspicion of trespassing and drinking in public, police sources told NBC4.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
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Texas state health officials said Tuesday there were 25 new cases of measles since the end of last week, bringing Texas’ total to 223.—
DEVI SHASTRI,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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This occurred in an environment where the passenger total at Ben Gurion Airport dropped 34%.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, Balcer wrote, co-directed and produced several documentaries, including 2017’s Above the Drowning Sea, narrated by Julianna Margulies and Tony Goldwyn, which told the epic story of thousands of Austrian Jews who escaped the Holocaust and found refuge in Shanghai.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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Her titular character, Meredith Grey, still narrates episodes, and Pompeo serves as an executive producer.—
Elizabeth Stanton,
Fox News,
16 Mar. 2025
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While Flying Lotus has constructed a film filled with distinctive imagery, Ash, on the whole, feels just as spotty as Riya’s memory.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Tourist arrivals in London increased 10% to 10.4 million in the first half of 2024, after rising 25% to 20.3 million in the whole of 2023, government data showed.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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By Charlie Warzel Perhaps the biggest surprise of Careless People, the new tell-all memoir by the former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, is that a book chronicling the social network’s missteps and moral bankruptcy can still make news in 2025.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2025
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In his more than two decades of writing about the world of sports, he’s chronicled everything from high school rodeo to a major league baseball no-hitter to the Super Bowl to the Finals.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Mar. 2025
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There was a reluctance to pay such a sum for someone whose talent was clear, but who had yet to deliver consistently in an elite league.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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The two groups have raised around $500 million -- a massive sum that will be used to help expand the Republican majorities in the midterm elections and to pressure Republicans to support Trump's agenda.—
Alex Isenstadt,
Axios,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Recount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recount. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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