as in to describe
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
Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
Molina’s vote total dropped by one after the recount.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Coristine recently recounted the incident that left him with a broken nose and a concussion.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The final results, accepted by the Boston Election Commission on Monday, also led to Wu, Kraft and Cappucci picking up votes in the partial recount, which encompassed five of the city’s 22 wards.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
Molina’s vote total dropped by one after the recount.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
After the game, The skipper recounted the conversation.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Coristine recently recounted the incident that left him with a broken nose and a concussion.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recount
Verb
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Officers described the shrapnel that dented the patrol car as being two inches by a half-inch.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Oct. 2025
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That’s how Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley described the state of the automotive industry earlier this year amid geopolitical tensions, tariffs, inflation and other disruptions.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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The administration is seeing a surprising amount of progress toward the goal of closing the agency, Hess said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Oct. 2025
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Other examples of bringing Latin artists onto mainstream stages have come with an unnecessary amount of controversy, even decades later.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Debris that may be key evidence could be as small as a fingernail, experts told CNN, and might have been thrown miles away.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Those last six words are telling.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Sergio Attento recently earned a perfect score on the SAT, achieving a total of 1600, the highest possible mark, NBC 6 reported.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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They were ultimately booked on a total of 34 charges, 16 of which are felonies.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Cultures around the world have ancient traditions of narrating events, sometimes gruesome, through song.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Watch a clip from The Ark below, narrated by Kyra Sedgwick.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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What came next was a whole of Avalanche excellence.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 2025
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For context, Arne Slot’s side only conceded three goals via such means across the whole of last season.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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His family life was chronicled on Gene Simmons Family Jewels, his reality series that ran on A&E from 2006 to 2012.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Ghostwatch is truly one of a kind, a ghost story disguised as a live news broadcast in which reporters chronicle a family supposedly being haunted by a poltergeist.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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So how should regular people think about all the huge sums of money churning through the industry?—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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No more shooting, no more Death, no more vast and unsustainable sums of money spent.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Recount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recount. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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