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as in recitation
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as in presentation
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Recent Examples of recital
Chris also gets sidelined by the protest traffic, and chooses to put on her running shoes and sprint to her daughter’s recital when taking a car there proves impossible.
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
The performances were interspersed with speeches, poems and recitals by actors Riz Ahmed, Guy Pearce, Benedict Cumberbatch, Florence Pugh, Richard Gere, and more.
—Thomas Smith, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
Performers will include the competition's first-ever gold medalist, the winner of the 2022 cycle and a 2018 laureate who will make her Indianapolis recital debut.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 11 Aug. 2025
Keep your calendar in a prominent location with key dates marked on it, including your work trip, your big project and your daughter’s violin recital.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
The performances were interspersed with speeches, poems and recitals by actors Riz Ahmed, Guy Pearce, Benedict Cumberbatch, Florence Pugh, Richard Gere, and more.
—Thomas Smith, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
Performers will include the competition's first-ever gold medalist, the winner of the 2022 cycle and a 2018 laureate who will make her Indianapolis recital debut.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 11 Aug. 2025
Keep your calendar in a prominent location with key dates marked on it, including your work trip, your big project and your daughter’s violin recital.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recital
Noun
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Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker deviated from the usual recitation of facts at this year’s State of the City address and instead chose to highlight the stories of individual residents.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Oct. 2025
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The meeting ended up not as a showcase of major changes to the military but a recitation of familiar talking points from Hegseth and Trump.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Just as design needs a certain amount of efficiency, the evening’s remarks and the awards presentation were concise.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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Both add an extra hint of crunch and flavor, while also taking the presentation to the next level.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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No one needs an enumeration of all the positive effects of exercise, on health, on social connections, on self-esteem, or otherwise.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
12 Aug. 2025
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But first consider the majority of the text of the Declaration: a stirring enumeration of specific grievances by the American colonists against the British crown.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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Its design blends sculpted carbon fiber with crimson hues, creating a visual symphony that feels alive even at rest.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Having put that debut album to bed, and allowed the symphony to exit the stage, Nas stuck around with the live band to perform a dizzying array of song snippets hailing from elsewhere in his catalog.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
6 Nov. 2025
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The repetition of that mythic version has buttressed the belief that the fight for American independence was an event somehow separate from world history.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Recurring gags, like one with Madonna suddenly falling asleep mid-sentence, are surprising and therefore funny the first time they’re rolled out, and then less surprising and therefore less funny with each repetition.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Additionally, Covington was never given a due performance appraisal and raise as required by the Kansas City Charter and Kansas City Missouri human resources manual, according to the lawsuit.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
12 Nov. 2025
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The celebration includes a traditional, live performance of the National Anthem at noon.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Nov. 2025
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Studios in Burbank, California, for a one-night-only concert that would be released as The Dance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Lennon, who grew up in a fractured home with little connection to global politics, is sympathetic when the Irish Liberation Army gets in touch and wants to plan concert tours that will raise bail money for their members.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Recital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recital. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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