recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
has recounted
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present perfectof recount (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He has recounted youthful dreaming of becoming a police officer like his father.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
BBC economics editor Faisal Islam has recounted how Darling later revealed he was subjected to intense lobbying by Dimon and other senior bankers to ditch the policy.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Evernote, the task-management app, was bought in 2022 only to shed more than half its staff and move operations from California to Europe, as private equity consultant Colin Keeley has recounted.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
He was involved in his family’s San Joaquin Valley dairy farm decades ago; when he was 14, he has recounted, he bought seven head of young cattle to raise and sell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
Suger has recounted in detail sixteen of the numerous expeditions which Louis undertook into the interior, to accomplish his work of repression or of exemplary chastisement.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert
