recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
recollects
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present tense formof recollect (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Minho goes first, moving carefully as he recollects the steps to 2Pm's viral track My House, with its famous chorus: "I wanna take you to my house."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
She recollects watching the 2015 All Star Game with her granddad.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
“Cokeville recollects ‘miracle’ of 1986,” Deseret News, May 15, 2006.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
“Terryl, say good-bye to your little brother,” she recollects him saying.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
