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Recent Examples of recitation
Here comes my annual recitation of why that’s 100 percent true.
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Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
This account is far from a dry recitation; it is filled with Hujar’s observations, honest self-assessments, and amusing dollops of gossip involving a wide circle of 1970s cultural luminaries.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2026
An imam who provided Quran lessons to Naveed Akram told CNN the young man had approached the Al Murad Institute for lessons on Quran recitation and Arabic language in 2019.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
The memo’s overheated rhetoric and lengthy recitation of political grievances also raise some doubts about his claims.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
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Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
This account is far from a dry recitation; it is filled with Hujar’s observations, honest self-assessments, and amusing dollops of gossip involving a wide circle of 1970s cultural luminaries.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2026
An imam who provided Quran lessons to Naveed Akram told CNN the young man had approached the Al Murad Institute for lessons on Quran recitation and Arabic language in 2019.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
The memo’s overheated rhetoric and lengthy recitation of political grievances also raise some doubts about his claims.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recitation
Noun
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The company has continued the annual Hart Institute for Women Conductors and Titus Family vocal recital.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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But what was once known as the Lieder recital — the German title for songs in a genre once dominated by Schubert, Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss — has approached its sell-by date.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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
Noun
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Milton’s stretch passes gave it a litany of breakaway chances, one of which Metzler stonewalled shortly after allowing the lead.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
18 Feb. 2026
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The actress has a litany of iconic costumes, dating back to the Penny Lane coat from the 2000 film Almost Famous.—
Natalie Arroyo Camacho,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Recitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recitation. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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