retelling

[ree-tel-ing]

noun

1. a new, and often updated or retranslated, version of a story.

Word History and Origins

Origin of retelling¹

First recorded in 1635–45; re- + tell ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

“Doing so has been my life’s chief regret,” he wrote in retelling of this story years later.

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That actually happened, but Byun Sung-hyun’s deeply cynical retelling doesn’t want you to take its word for it — and it’s best not to trust these careerist officials to save the day either.

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Each retelling framed in the fashion of a Greek tragedy.

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But playwright Alfred Uhry and composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown had a vision of what they could uniquely bring to the retelling of Frank’s story.

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When he heard the older people emotionally retelling their stories, sometimes in tears, about how they had wasted their lives, he knew he had to change.

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