Thesaurus results for RECOUNTS

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verb

present tense third-person singular of recount

as in describes

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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noun

plural of recount

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The documentary recounts the history of the original group while heeding its call to action by collaborating with next-gen artists to carry the tradition forward. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Stallone recounts the years leading up to the film’s success, right up to the night of the 1977 Oscars, when Rocky won the award for best picture. — Monica Coviello, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026 To gain her life back and reverse the spell, Felicity recounts her college years. — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026 Just when the team’s training camp started, Anderson recounts that Brady asked for a leave of absence to go on a romantic Bahamas getaway with his wife. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026 In this installment, author Min Jin Lee recounts a factchecking trip to Sydney to polish American Hagwon, the followup to her books Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026 One man recounts hitchhiking four miles a day to a bakery to save 20 cents on a bag of bread for his family. — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2026 Your book recounts some painful episodes from your time as CEO. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026 The two-part November 13, Sonia’s Choice recounts the true story of a woman at the heart of the hunt for the culprits of the Paris terror attacks on November 13, 2015, who is now living in hiding. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026

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There are no automatic recounts in Indiana, but the losing candidate may request and pay for a recount regardless of the vote margin. — Robert Yoon, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026

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The Marine Corps describes it as a highly mobile and rapidly deployable system intended for sea denial and littoral protection.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
Truong describes ground networks as high capacity where people cluster, satellites as wide-area coverage, and the stratospheric layer as a bridge for places that are hard or expensive to serve.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026

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Garon notes that most people who bet on sports do so infrequently and with small amounts of money.

— Shae Lake, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
While natural kratom contains only trace amounts of 7-OH, some companies sell concentrated or synthetic forms of the compound under brand names such as Magic 7OH and 7 O’Heaven for as little as $4 a pop.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026

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The film, billed as a biographical dramedy, tells the story of a chaotic boardroom crisis at OpenAI in November 2023, when co-founder Altman was fired and then re-hired at the AI giant.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Ilya is looking for work as an assistant, and the professor, with his dandyish nerd arrogance, tells him to look at a paper he’s written and come back in a few days.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of tells

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OpenAI raised $122 billion in a single round this year and Anthropic $65 billion, totals which no Chinese company can match.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
In 2020, Andrew Booker of the University of Bristol and Andrew Sutherland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology settled the case for when the sum of x3 + y3 + z3 totals 42.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of totals

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In four of the videos, posted before Johnson formally announced his reelection bid, the mayor narrates a tour of investments on the city’s South, West, Southwest and Northwest sides.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
Cathy narrates, and here, too, in the Trask house, is another divide.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of narrates

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Cyrus, who becomes an administrator of veterans’ benefits, leaves his sons such large sums that Charles (Mike Faist) concludes that the old man must have raided his agency’s funds.

— Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2026
Love quickly gained the trust of dozens of women, allegedly convincing them to give him large sums of money.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of sums

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Royal expert Ingrid Seward, who knew Diana and whose latest book, Catherine and Diana, chronicles the lives of the Princesses of Wales, believes the battle to control Diana’s legacy will continue beyond next year’s milestone anniversary.

— Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
Glass chronicles the chaos as home buyers thronged into tracts without schools, sewers, trash removal, or viable tax bases.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of chronicles

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Frankel also faces investment adviser fraud and false-statement counts over SEC filings that allegedly concealed his conviction and a Finra suspension.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
She had previously been charged in those counts with assault using a semiautomatic firearm.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

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