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to give an oral or written account of in some detail
a novel that recounted an American soldier's adventures among the samurai warriors of 19th-century Japan
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Recent Examples of recount
Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
Loading your audio article Days after Tuesday’s special election, the San Jose District 3 City Council race has become a showdown for second-place and with the margins razor thin, a recount is likely to determine the candidate who will face Gabby Chavez-Lopez in a June runoff.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
Tribune Content Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2025
Here’s what each of the firms that tracked Sunday’s event thought about it and its effect on their investing thesis: Wedbush Ives recounted his experience taking two robotaxi rides in Austin.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 23 June 2025
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Dozens of court cases, reviews, recounts and investigations — even one authorized by Trump — have found no evidence that his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election was the result of fraud.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
Loading your audio article Days after Tuesday’s special election, the San Jose District 3 City Council race has become a showdown for second-place and with the margins razor thin, a recount is likely to determine the candidate who will face Gabby Chavez-Lopez in a June runoff.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
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Former Packers tight end Marcedes Lewis — a player Rodgers complimented in comparing Steelers tight end Darnell Washington to him — recounted one notable occurrence a few years back on a Yahoo! Sports podcast.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2025
Here’s what each of the firms that tracked Sunday’s event thought about it and its effect on their investing thesis: Wedbush Ives recounted his experience taking two robotaxi rides in Austin.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recount
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TikTok users flooded the comment section with responses describing the scene as heartwarming and emotionally stirring.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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The brothers ran, but Brown was fatally wounded, and witnesses described seeing a pickup truck fleeing the scene.—
Grant Lancaster,
Arkansas Online,
30 June 2025
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With overtime, controllers in the most complex airspace routinely make more than twice that amount.—
Joel Rose,
NPR,
19 June 2025
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That amount is about 200x less than what industry insiders estimate OpenAI spent training its GPT-4 model.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
19 June 2025
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In summer 2001, he was told to quickly pack his bags as the sheriff was coming to evict them.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
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Additionally, Meghan remarked on how she’s been able to tell her story from her perspective.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
19 June 2025
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Regardless, due to the extremely limited numbers, this example—with a total of 389 miles on it—is sure to see bidding go ballistic.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
30 June 2025
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For years, the United States has been the greatest source of donations to Peter’s Pence, with U.S. Catholics contributing about a quarter of the total each year.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2025
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The 2007 teen drama centered on a group of wealthy high school students at an exclusive prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side terrorized by a mysterious and vicious blogger (narrated by Kristen Bell) who spilled all of their secrets.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 June 2025
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This collection was adapted into the perennial Christmas classic A Christmas Story, which Shepherd narrated.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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As for your everyday wear, Hawaiian style on the whole is fairly casual.—
Abby Morgan Lebet,
Glamour,
20 June 2025
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Yet on the whole, the economic and market turbulences of April and May have quickly subsided and set the stage for a strong summer and fall.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
20 June 2025
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That’s coming from Swift, who built a legion of fans on chronicling breakups.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2025
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The book chronicles Rajamani’s extraordinary survival from a massive brain hemorrhage at age 25, tackling themes of disability, race, and cultural taboos.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 June 2025
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In arithmetic progressions, there are many groups of numbers that have the same sum.—
Leila Sloman,
Wired News,
29 June 2025
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Their professions range from sales representatives to community coaches, and Auckland’s winnings of roughly €4 million ($4.5 million) from the Club World Cup—peanuts to elite clubs—is a fortune for an entity and federation not used to dealing in such sums.—
Henry Flynn,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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“Recount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recount. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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