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as in recitation
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as in presentation
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Recent Examples of recital
Carly had been awarded honorable mention in the spring American Protégé International Music Talent Competition and was invited to play in a recital program at Carnegie.
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
Later that year, Byrd worked as an assistant to composer Virgil Thomson and, by 1962, was performing minimal music compositions during his own recital at Carnegie Hall.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 Dec. 2025
My kid was doing his recital, was supposed to play the bug who has to go get the egg.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
Being smushed together with a hundred other families in a hot, smelly auditorium for a Nutcracker dance recital.
—Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 24 Nov. 2025
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
Later that year, Byrd worked as an assistant to composer Virgil Thomson and, by 1962, was performing minimal music compositions during his own recital at Carnegie Hall.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 Dec. 2025
My kid was doing his recital, was supposed to play the bug who has to go get the egg.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
Being smushed together with a hundred other families in a hot, smelly auditorium for a Nutcracker dance recital.
—Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recital
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Jackson turned the recitation into a call‑and‑response chant, often delivered with groups of children or large crowds.—
Diana Leyva,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
17 Feb. 2026
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When asked by The Guardian in 2012 the most important lesson life has taught him, Jackson delivered this recitation.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
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The other grant recipient, Critter Encounters, is a live animal education company that offers up-close animal presentations at schools and private events.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Spain’s muscular presence at this year’s Berlinale and European Film Market was bolstered on Saturday with an inaugural presentation and networking event organized by the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster in collaboration with the Madrid Film Office and Film Madrid Region.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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Anything that was anti-Jewish—a story about exclusion, an obstacle that hadn’t come down, a disapproving enumeration of supposedly Jewish traits—was possibly more fascinating.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
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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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The Hollywood Bowl 2026 season announced Wednesday includes the usual eclectic mix of symphonies and rock bands, jazz nights and film music.—
Peter Larsen,
Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
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The soloist was Yi-Chen Feng, a prize winner of the chamber symphony’s Dallas International Piano Competition and several other contests.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
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These four novels create a convincing, wrenching, kaleidoscopic picture of the range and repetitions of the most fatal kind of love; the sort of love that allows nothing else to grow around it, that eradicates all dignity; a love which, in order to be completed, must be told.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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Power that relies on repetition collapses when the pattern is named.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
17 Feb. 2026
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The lively City Hall gala was Boston’s third official celebration since the city formally recognized the day as a holiday in 2023, and attendees marked the occasion with a range of artistic showcases and performances.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
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Kick You, and Naomi Ackie won best supporting performance for Sorry, Baby.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026
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And come summer, seeing a concert in this gorgeous setting is a can't-miss activity.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement EPiC mixes concert footage with interstitial clips of Elvis just being Elvis, as if to collapse, as much as will ever be possible, the distance between his public and private selves.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Recital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recital. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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