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Olympic hockey player Jeremy Roenick, explaining why players' rooms were damaged "He basically was recollecting what had transpired and was checking to see if Ms. Currie's recollection was the same."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was recollecting herself for a supreme act of religion.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by Lespérance, John

At any rate, I have an orchard, and he has put up many excuses, but never yet that he was recollecting Sion.

From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Here he was recollecting his youth instead of concentrating on the task at hand.

From Regeneration by Dye, Charles

Anne was recollecting that Colonel Musgrave had somewhat pointedly avoided her since her widowhood.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch