reeling off

present participle of reel off
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as in reciting
to give from memory he's able to reel off the names of all the U.S. presidents, in historical order and without pausing

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Recent Examples of reeling off Harrell started the game completing two of his first five passes before reeling off 12 consecutive completions and keeping the 49ers’ offense afloat. Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025 The reeling off of mogul war stories during the nearly 90-minute program was matched by the crowd of about 150 people in the cozy confines of the Paley Center’s 10th-floor event space. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 The theory has resulted in the team reeling off victory after victory down the home stretch with unbeaten sequences of 14 in 2018-19, 12 in 2021-22, 16 in 2022-23 and 23 in 2023-24. Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reeling off
Verb
  • Line of the week is Benito reciting a snippet of Pablo Neruda in Spanish.
    Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Less convincing are some of the dramatically hefty scenes involving Dillon’s Horn, who seems, at times, to be reciting his dialogue rather than fully embodying it.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Nick Sadek, the Sotheby’s International Realty broker, is also a listing agent on the property.
    John Turton, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Leslie had been discovered deceased in her upstairs bathroom, with the autopsy listing her official cause of death as blunt force trauma.
    Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Quaid, who portrayed the imposing Cousin Eddie in the movie, said that Chase had trouble memorizing his dialogue while filming a particularly verbose breakdown scene near the climax of the film.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • A little circular icon at the bottom of the screen tracks and visualizes your exact thumb motion with a red line to make memorizing tricks easier.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After weeks of detailing her social and mental health struggles with Character.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • While detailing the first in-person meeting between her and Rodríguez, Pascal spoke about the specific rhetoric that trans actors sometimes come up against, which is that trans actors should connect with trans subjects based solely on identity, rather than the many other aspects of their humanity.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kennedy has also recently cleaned house in the CDC’s critical advisory committee, which makes vaccine policy recommendations to the CDC’s director, including those outlining who should get vaccinated, with what vaccines and at what age.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since the discovery of PFAS, town officials — who are elected volunteers — feel there hasn't been a lot of guidance from the state, other than outlining that something needs to be done to bring the PFAS levels down.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Reeling off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reeling%20off. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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