reminisces

Definition of reminiscesnext
present tense third-person singular of reminisce
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Verb
  • And shape a caring leader who constantly remembers each and every American soldier is someone's child.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Feuerbacher remembers slowly adding water from the natural pool into this tub, to try to help the fish acclimate a bit before they were released.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Delery ruminates on her wastrel youth.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The film ruminates on guilt, familial strife, and trauma with Ball’s signature bittersweet touch, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In the 1980s, many people didn't understand what the fuss was about, longtime broadcast journalist Joie Chen recalls.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 May 2026
  • In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates recalls learning that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle school.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • As coach John Hynes ponders his Game 1 starter, the recent numbers will show that Wallstedt has allowed a total of four goals in his final two regular-season starts, while veteran Filip Gustavsson has been touched for 10 in the same span.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
  • While Heinrich ponders the misfiring neurons in the brain of a mass shooter, Jack’s pursuit of Mink—a character whose skin color and ambiguous ethnicity Jack remarks on repeatedly—leads him directly into the urban teeth of the War on Drugs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • For one, state law contemplates the state of Wisconsin—and not private residents—as being able to lawfully operate a lottery in Wisconsin.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Jessie Buckley stars as the Young Woman — her name and occupation changing frequently — who contemplates ending her seven-week relationship during a Thanksgiving trip to meet her boyfriend Jake's (Jesse Plemons) parents at their farmhouse.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Data center debates takeover small town Texas Many state and local officials welcome the blossoming industry as an economic opportunity in small communities where revenue can be hard to come by.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
  • Lesch plays the savior’s anguished betrayer not as an intellectual equal who fiercely debates him and loses all patience with the movement.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • Then the Solar System Dynamics Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzes the objects that will come closest to Earth, using infrared-scanning telescopes such as NEOWISE to estimate the size of asteroids, especially darker ones that are difficult to see in the visible spectrum.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 May 2026
  • This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • Beyond the standard anxieties of releasing her work to the public, Kang meditates on the act of transmission that occurs in the very articulation of a person’s spirit through words.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • Right after waking up, the leader meditates, journals, and zeroes in on the most critical task of the day.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Reminisces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reminisces. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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