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Recent Examples of recitation
And the album’s remaining eight songs new music and soundscapes to go under Cantrell’s recitations.
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Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
But the documentary constitutes much more than a recitation of Ride’s credentials.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
The evening would end with additional recitations of Burns’ poems and songs, culminating in a group singing of Auld Lange Syne.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
So get ready for this stock response to be followed by a lengthy recitation of names, including several of whom have no chance short of a meteor strike of making the team.
—Tim Britton, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
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Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
But the documentary constitutes much more than a recitation of Ride’s credentials.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
The evening would end with additional recitations of Burns’ poems and songs, culminating in a group singing of Auld Lange Syne.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
So get ready for this stock response to be followed by a lengthy recitation of names, including several of whom have no chance short of a meteor strike of making the team.
—Tim Britton, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recitation
Noun
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Even though flexible work models have been game changers by allowing many working parents to be there for school drop-offs, attend recitals and integrate work and home life in a way that once seemed impossible, there’s still work to do.—
Sarah Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Larry played the piano at the famous fortnightly recitals at the Buckley maisonette on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where National Review talent, celebrity acquaintances, and classical musicians congregated for dinner and performance with the Buckleys.—
Alexander Norton III,
National Review,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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One was a perfectionist who gave performances of stunning power that sometimes became smoothed out and even bland through repetition; the other was full of surprises—always discovering things, a sensibility always in the making.—
David Denby,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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Goode almost always worked in a series — for instance, making multiple sculptures of staircases whose orderly repetition of rectilinear treads and risers put a domestic tongue firmly in the industrial cheek of Minimalist art’s crisp geometry.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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However, even if a citizenship question was included on a subsequent enumeration, the U.S. Supreme Court should— and very likely still would—strike down federal anti-alien reapportionment legislation as a blatant affront to the Constitution’s requirements.—
Made by History,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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Dudek stopped short of explaining the reasoning behind the SSA’s initial proposal to discontinue birth enumeration for residents of the state.—
Ailia Zehra,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Later in the interview, Kosta returned to White Lotus, and asked Glenn his thoughts on the show grappling with men who have a litany of issues.—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025
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The House Budget Committee on Wednesday heard a litany of concerns about finances at a handful of agencies, with some lawmakers accusing agency heads of thwarting efforts to delve into questionable spending.—
Dara Kam,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Recitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recitation. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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