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verb (1)

past tense of recollect

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verb (2)

past tense of re-collect
1
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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2
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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Examples of recollected in a Sentence

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Does your table offer a first-class ticket to spicy destinations across the globe, or a comfortable sinking into recollected recipes from your mother? Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 4 July 2024 Most history begins and ends with personal witness, and even written documents, after all, were very often once spoken memories, with many of the best histories depending on recollected conversation, from Boswell’s life of Dr. Johnson to the court memoirs of Saint-Simon. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022 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. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017

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“Recollected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recollected. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.

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