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recounts

  • present tense form
    of recount (3rd person singular).
    recount
    verb (used with object)
    to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.

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Recounts can be requested by candidates in close races, and in some states recounts are automatically triggered if they fall within a certain margin.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Throughout the book, Krakauer recounts his attempt to summit Mount Everest the year earlier in what would become, at the time, the mountain’s deadliest season.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

In 1686, at least one now contested-account recounts the story of Sir John Knight, a devout anti-Catholic, busting into the church of St. Michael in Bristol, England, during services with a gun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Fielder recounts that, during a meeting where cameras were not present, Evans asked him, Oppenheim and two A24 executives if the couple could get a share of the film’s eventual box office proceeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Herodotus recounts an earlier voyage that surpassed Nearchus and Pytheas in audacity: around 600, a Phoenician fleet hired by Pharaoh Necho actually circumnavigated the African continent.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro