as in to remember
to bring back to mind
I can't recollect if I turned the stove off or not before leaving the house
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as in to retrieve
to get again in one's possession
I struggled to re-collect the papers the wind had torn from my hands
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Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
During an interview with PEOPLE, the Dawson’s Creek alum recollects his childhood memories of drinking sodas after hockey practice with his friends, Dr. Pepper being his go-to choice, and how those traditions have carried into his adulthood.
—Moná Thomas, People.com, 15 July 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2025
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Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.
—Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
During an interview with PEOPLE, the Dawson’s Creek alum recollects his childhood memories of drinking sodas after hockey practice with his friends, Dr. Pepper being his go-to choice, and how those traditions have carried into his adulthood.
—Moná Thomas, People.com, 15 July 2025
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With photonic cooling, the light emitted via anti-Stokes fluorescence can be recovered by re-collecting the light into fiber-optic cables and then converting it to electricity through thermophotovoltaics, leading to upwards of 60 percent energy recovery.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Recollect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recollect. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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