as in remembers
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 retrieves
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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Britain remembers well the fiasco of 2022, when then-Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a mass sell-off of bonds after presenting plans for huge unfunded tax cuts.
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This logic represents real organizational knowledge, even if no one remembers how it is enforced.
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This article contains spoilers from House of the Dragon season 3, episode 2.
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Their newsletter contains so much encyclopedic data about the podcasting industry.
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Amazon retrieves and refurbishes the equipment after deployment so it can be used again.
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Ann Wang | Reuters Amon shared an example of an agent that instantly retrieves details of banking transactions, eliminating the need for a user to navigate through the app and manually locate the information.
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Adams recalls reading about a case where a buyer's agent visited a property that had been professionally photographed to look move-in ready, only to find a very different reality.
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Matthews recalls a large Denver employer expressing concern about the lack of affordable housing.
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Agent authority composes dynamically.
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Each night, the chef composes a refined tasting menu, featuring two appetizers, a choice of two entrées, and a dessert.
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Oh, there’s a pipe dream out there, all about a once-great player who recaptures the old magic, but that’s hardly the appropriate mood.
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While not a full-fledged continuation of the fantastic action show Lycoris Recoil, this series of shorts recaptures the other half of the 2022 girls-with-guns series.
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For that reason, there’s a real shot that Pickens can still score 15-17 PPG while Lamb gets back to that 17 PPG range himself.
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Let’s put a pin in this one till AJ gets back.
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England's starting 11 will be missing two key players as Declan Rice starts on the bench and Reece James recovers from injury.
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Foster still finds resonance in moment at the end of the film, after Kyle recovers her daughter, who seemingly has no awareness of the harrowing journey that her mother has just endured to find her.
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“Recollects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recollects. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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