Thesaurus results for NARRATE

narrate

verb

ˈner-ˌāt

Definition of narrate

as in to describe

to give an oral or written account of in some detail got a CD of the best-selling children's story that happened to be narrated by the author herself

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Recent Examples of narrate The weird girl novel is narrated by a young woman who is kind of losing it. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 Quaid narrates the new documentary Water Wars, which dives into a legal war over water rights in West Texas. — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026 With Diane Lane narrating from Eleanor’s journals during that time, Making Marie Antoinette transcends a behind-the-scenes special and becomes a much more intimate look into the artistry of a mother and daughter in conversation with each other. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026 Previous sets of audio books, narrated by Jim Dale and Stephen Fry respectively, have proved incredibly popular. — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for narrate

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The modern American Dream is best described as a private bunker where the outside world arrives entirely in a cardboard box or a fiber-optic cable.

— John Mac Ghlionn, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
Strahan described the chaos in New York City amid the rescue efforts and the accompanying bomb threats and noted that the Giants could still see smoke from the twin towers from the team’s practice fields.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of describe

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Home plate umpire Doug Eddings called time to tell Hancel Rincon to fix his hat.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Several parents previously told the Democrat-Gazette and other local media that the couple then disappeared and stopped responding to emails or phone calls.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of tell

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Old timers would recount finding a water moccasin in their boat.

— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
However, between these meetings, Glover shared his desire to stand in front of an auditorium and teach the next generation by recounting his nearly 14 years as an active astronaut and 28-year career in the United States Navy.

— Noe Padilla, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of recount

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Its huge moves since then have been well chronicled, from the first spike toward 200 to eventually undercutting its IPO price before rising again.

— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
In 1973, Barbara Kopple and a small team traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky to chronicle the Brookside miners’ strike against the Duke Power Company.

— Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of chronicle

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Schot will assume responsibility for board and committee-related governance matters, including the coordination of the board’s committees, and the group’s corporate governance framework.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Genetic studies show Denisovans and Neanderthals were closely related.

— Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026

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