recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
is recounting
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present progressiveof recount (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Now the band is recounting how it all happened in a four-part docuseries premiering Friday on Hulu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
As the title suggests, the story reads as if the protagonist, a vampire named Louis de Pointe du Lac, is recounting his life to a reporter referred to only as the boy.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
Daryl Brewster is recounting a discussion about children's nutrition and the safe use of ingredients at a board meeting of the US food giant Nabisco.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022
Harry is recounting a lot of experiences that I had in my own life, beautifully.
From Salon ● May 2, 2020
The amateur, content with knowing that he is recounting what did actually happen, falls into the most inartistic ways, because he does not understand that facts are properly only crude material for the fictionist.
From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett
