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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recitations
Noun
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Because Harbaugh is spending time on game situations, on details, on repetitions that this team has not gotten in the past.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2026 -
Proper form and control matter more than doing higher repetitions.—
Christa Sgobba,
Health,
5 May 2026
Noun
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Keeping the camera still in a courthouse’s small, windowless chambers, Depardon depicts these face-to-face showdowns as litanies of misery, as the officials make suspects confront the grim circumstances leading to their arrests.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2026
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Hval’s restless melodies and at-times Proustian lyrics trail cigarette smoke or the fragrance of roses toward litanies of memory, all the while deconstructing the very natures of stage performance, recording technology, and digital existence.—
Jenn Pelly,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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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“Recitations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recitations. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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