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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Learner driver Teddy is recounting her fear at being tailgated by another driver mid-lesson.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
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
Fast-forward to a blustery Halloween afternoon in 1990s Salem and a teacher is recounting the tale of the Sanderson sisters to a classroom of teenagers, more rapt and delighted than any teenagers I've ever known.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
