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narrating

verb

present participle of narrate

as in describing

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 narrating Lestat may have been narrating his failures this past season, but the series is celebrating its accomplishments as executive producer Mark Johnson announced a season-four renewal. — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 24 July 2026 Also delivered was The World Lives here, a cinematic campaign for TSN connected to the FIFA World Cup, with Kiefer Sutherland narrating. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 July 2026 New Girl cast member Nelson Franklin is narrating a portion of the audiobook, in excerpts also shared by THR below. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026 The story is told in two interwoven timelines, with Cecilia narrating her current reality in the first-person point of view, and the past intrigue of what occurred between the women in Mexico told in the third person. — Samantha Dunn, Oc Register, 20 July 2026 But there’s a difference between narrating crime scenes at a remove and wrestling with the lingering morality of it all. — Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 17 July 2026 Pattinson will play Antinous, son of Eupeithes, and his voice can be heard narrating the teaser, per Variety. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026 Connecticut Ballet founder Brett Raphael will be present at all the shows, introducing or narrating the pieces. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026 In JadePuffer, Sysdig caught useful traces because the payloads were self narrating and included natural language reasoning, target ranking and unusually verbose comments. — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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The framework's own repository is blunt about its limits, describing its controls as defense-in-depth rather than true containment.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Fuldauer said the insurance industry needs to become a resilience partner for society, describing public-private partnerships as key to success in this area.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026

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Abernathy Greenway Park walk with Trees Atlanta Take a walk through the park with a Trees Atlanta docent, who will teach simple tricks for telling trees apart and share stories about why trees are important and how to protect them.

— Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
But that, according to the Florida Bar, did not absolve Gonzalez of his decision to dismiss the case in the first place without telling his client, a Miami resident.

— Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of telling

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The author draws a parallel to meteorological phenomena like the urban heat island effect, where evaporation helps cool environments, even humorously recounting using an infrared camera to study heat dynamics within their own sauna.

— Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Despite initially losing consciousness herself as a result of the explosion, Maria still vividly remembered the atrocity when recounting it to the Museum of Civilian Voices.

— Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 31 July 2026

Definition of recounting

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Glanville, who has been publicly chronicling her facial disfigurement and search for answers after developing a mysterious illness, shared on Instagram Wednesday.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026
Phillip Molnar of The San Diego Union-Tribune has been chronicling housing development and price trends in the region for years.

— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2026

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