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Officials throughout California have been reciting a similar refrain for months and have been especially earnest as numbers of new coronavirus infections have rocketed to unprecedented heights throughout much of the nation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2020

To just say that bigotry and bullying have no place in American society - a golden rule that schools have been reciting for years - doesn’t make intolerance vanish.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2017

He could well have been reciting a weather report, not breaking his country’s biggest news story since 1959.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2015

He may have been reciting the party line fed to him by Masters officials, but he managed to do it in his second language and he stuck to the script.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2013

I said: "Please come up and recite something," and he replied: "Shall I recite the same thing the young men have been reciting?"

From The Key to Success by Conwell, Russell H.