Example Sentences

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For example, part of my mental process as I write this article is recollecting and reflecting on research from colleagues.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023

For our lifetime the strains of a harp are heard to swell and die alternately, and death is but "the pause when the blast is recollecting itself."

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David