as in collected
free from emotional or mental agitation
are you recollected enough to talk about your close call?
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as in remembered
to bring back to mind
I can't recollect if I turned the stove off or not before leaving the house
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as in contained
to gain emotional or mental control of
she had to calm down and re-collect herself after being told she had won the lottery
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as in retrieved
to get again in one's possession
I struggled to re-collect the papers the wind had torn from my hands
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Recent Examples of recollected
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
Perhaps a strategic loosening of novelistic form was what Hollinghurst was going for, in an effort to capture the enigma of the recollected past.
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Giles Harvey,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
Abby therefore spends the night imagining her way through the various rooms of her own life, attempting to attach each beat of her speech to a recollected physical space.
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Lynn Steger Strong,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2023
The substance of such recollected moments here isn’t all that different from the thumbnail making-of-a-champion profiles that regularly punctuate Olympics broadcasts.
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Ben Brantley,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2017
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
But the Bruins recollected themselves, and the flow state returned on the other side of the timeout.
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Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
2 Mar. 2026
The rueful voice-over from myriad characters is spoken in the past tense, the onscreen moments (even the present-day scenes) seemingly being recollected long after.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
Johnson paints Grainier’s life as a series of faces with clear entrances and exits, episodes of friendship or acquaintancy that can only be recollected as something finite and finished.
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Rory Doherty,
Time,
21 Nov. 2025
There were no dates recollected correctly.
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Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Does your table offer a first-class ticket to spicy destinations across the globe, or a comfortable sinking into recollected recipes from your mother?
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Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
Perhaps a strategic loosening of novelistic form was what Hollinghurst was going for, in an effort to capture the enigma of the recollected past.
—
Giles Harvey,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
Abby therefore spends the night imagining her way through the various rooms of her own life, attempting to attach each beat of her speech to a recollected physical space.
—
Lynn Steger Strong,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2023
The substance of such recollected moments here isn’t all that different from the thumbnail making-of-a-champion profiles that regularly punctuate Olympics broadcasts.
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Ben Brantley,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2017
Verb
Through its characters, the book stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps—those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
But the Bruins recollected themselves, and the flow state returned on the other side of the timeout.
—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
2 Mar. 2026
The rueful voice-over from myriad characters is spoken in the past tense, the onscreen moments (even the present-day scenes) seemingly being recollected long after.
—
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
Johnson paints Grainier’s life as a series of faces with clear entrances and exits, episodes of friendship or acquaintancy that can only be recollected as something finite and finished.
—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
21 Nov. 2025
There were no dates recollected correctly.
—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.
—
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recollected
Adjective
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That changed in 2018, when the Council passed Helen Rosenthal’s bill encouraging New Yorkers to report idling violations by requiring the city to publicize the process and pay them 25% of any collected fines for their efforts.
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There is a music room with an upright piano, wind-up gramophone and the collected lyrics of Bob Dylan—a perfect touch for the pop star.
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Mabinty was remembered as a beautiful soul whose kindness, love, and hardworking spirit touched everyone who had the privilege of knowing her.
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In categories where the buying cycle is long and the buyer spends most of their time not talking to you, being remembered is the whole game.
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The data contained inside is helping researchers understand otherwise hard-to-examine cosmic interactions like microlensing.
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The diminutive menu contained just three sandwiches, two salads and a single dessert.
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On Monday evening, 18-year-old suspect Bradley Scott Sayer allegedly did a walk-through of the building, retrieved a shotgun from his vehicle and fatally shot Johnson at the main door and Hull inside.
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Wallick believed Martinez-Sarmiento had retrieved a weapon from a car and was going to menace others outside the nightclub, the district attorney’s office said.
Adjective
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After opening the 2026 FIFA World Cup with a dominant 4-1 win over Paraguay in Los Angeles, the United States followed it with a composed 2-0 victory over Australia in Seattle.
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While uniform cubes are suited for an elegant, composed presentation, torn croutons are a humble upgrade for nearly everything else where a little contrast is welcome.
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In a corresponding move, the Dodgers recalled right-hander Chayce McDermott.
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The Crips and Bloods reached the apex of their Stockton influence in the 1980s and 1990s, Washington recalled, as the concept of fast money dawned along with the crack cocaine epidemic.
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He was recaptured and indicted on a charge of obstructing a pending immigration proceeding.
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He was recaptured and indicted on a charge of obstructing a pending immigration proceeding.
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To alleviate some of the security concerns in metropolitan areas and calm citizens' fears, the United States housed prisoners in military installations and federal facilities throughout the South and Southwest.
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Clark seized on a more gentle course — slightly calmer and still soft with receptive greens — by pulling away late to reach six-under-par through 16 holes.
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“Recollected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recollected. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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