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Recent Examples of recitation
The title track is simply a recitation of imagined Spotify playlists, and once the joke lands we’re not left with much.
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The Week Us, TheWeek, 25 Mar. 2026
Its stories are centuries old – yet they are recited by many Nepalis every winter, even as the daily recitation now competes with many modern distractions, such as smartphones and social media.
—Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
What the book is not is a recitation of big games and important goals.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Islamic education can include Quranic studies and recitation as well as curriculum on Islamic principles, Carroll said.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
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The Week Us, TheWeek, 25 Mar. 2026
Its stories are centuries old – yet they are recited by many Nepalis every winter, even as the daily recitation now competes with many modern distractions, such as smartphones and social media.
—Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
What the book is not is a recitation of big games and important goals.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Islamic education can include Quranic studies and recitation as well as curriculum on Islamic principles, Carroll said.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recitation
Noun
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His other, more conservative but still expressive sets for RCA comprised a joint project with Coleman Hawkins, a recital of familiar bop tunes and a collection of standards.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
26 May 2026
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Oliver's birthday just passed and Emilia just had her first ballet recital; Adeline's birthday is soon, and Owen graduates from high school in a couple of weeks.—
Tara Copp The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2026
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Capitalist tactics—repetition, decontextualization, estrangement—were put in service of their literal-minded appropriations.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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O’Farrell’s sentences — the musicality of her repetitions, the genial warmth of her narration, the visceral pleasures of her imagery — offer comfort against the backdrop of heartbreak so common to her fiction.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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There are new reports citing the leaderboard-style enumerations of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, which suggest that U.S. tech layoffs are now at their worst year-to-date point since 2023, with approximately 52,050 job cuts this year 2026, 18,720 of them in March.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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The video features Bloodwerk’s Ned Brower — formerly of Rooney, currently Nurse Jesse on The Pitt — suffering a litany of indignities at the hands of rowdy restaurant patrons.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
2 June 2026
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What simply begins as elevated weight often progresses into Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and a litany of other conditions that diminish quality of life and ultimately cost our healthcare system in the long run, far more than early intervention ever would.—
Karen R. Studer,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 2026
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