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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 narrates
The song also narrates the killings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, who were fatally shot by federal agents this month.
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Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
Only this time, Buttafuoco narrates the events of her own life, as actress Chloe Lanier plays her younger self.
—Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
George Clooney narrates, the voice of Thoreau is provided by Jeff Goldblum, and Ted Danson, Tate Donovan, and Meryl Streep also lend a hand.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
And the actor who narrates the opening scene, describing an essay Nora wrote as a child that anthropomorphized the family home, is Bente Børsum.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
The movie narrates the life of George Orwell, using a compendium of archival sources, including the great writer’s letters and journals.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
Who narrates 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'?
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
Hugh Bonneville narrates this intimate and emotional look at the powerful relationships between these animals and the heroic humans dedicated to raising, rehabilitating, and rewilding them to help save their species.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2025
In the clip, Pree narrates the story of how the little cat came back to her.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
Only this time, Buttafuoco narrates the events of her own life, as actress Chloe Lanier plays her younger self.
—Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
George Clooney narrates, the voice of Thoreau is provided by Jeff Goldblum, and Ted Danson, Tate Donovan, and Meryl Streep also lend a hand.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
And the actor who narrates the opening scene, describing an essay Nora wrote as a child that anthropomorphized the family home, is Bente Børsum.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
The movie narrates the life of George Orwell, using a compendium of archival sources, including the great writer’s letters and journals.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
Who narrates 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'?
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
Hugh Bonneville narrates this intimate and emotional look at the powerful relationships between these animals and the heroic humans dedicated to raising, rehabilitating, and rewilding them to help save their species.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2025
In the clip, Pree narrates the story of how the little cat came back to her.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narrates
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Jordan describes the relationship between chef and winemaker as a constant dialogue, a feedback loop that ensures every pairing expresses the wine’s architecture, not just its flavor profile.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The company describes its approach as a two-step process.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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Jennette McCurdy tells Sofia Coppola about writing Half His Age.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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After age 30, people lose, on average, 3% to 5% of their muscle mass each decade, which is an especially risky trajectory for women, Rachele Pojednic, PhD, EdM, FACSM, a nutrition and exercise researcher, and director of education at Stanford Lifestyle Medicine, tells SELF.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
29 Jan. 2026
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His memoir Chronicles recounts his mother’s avid response to a Kennedy campaign visit to Hibbing, Minnesota, six months after Dylan left for Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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In the 95-minute performance directed by former Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, Ming-Trent recounts his eventful and occasionally tragic childhood that left him exiting a Greyhound bus in New York City’s Port Authority at age 17 with his mind set on becoming an actor.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Directed by Stacey Lee and produced by Jon Watts, the three-part documentary series (inspired by the iHeart Media podcast of the same name) chronicles a high school sociology class trying to crack a local cold case.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
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The first is a documentary that chronicles the tumultuous, year-long construction of Disneyland; the other serves as the ideal pre-game option to Rachel McAdams’ latest flight-from-hell flick.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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But the story Sorkin relates is really all about the insiders, their privileged lives, their thoughts and actions.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
11 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, the omniscient, just-the-facts-ma’am narration relates the days and times and events with an efficiency that speaks to us of the unstoppable nature of fate.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
31 Dec. 2025
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