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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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Voigt accompanied various community choirs and would perform in solo and collaborative recitals, and was the organist at Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church in Oak Park for a half-century.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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There are assignments within Alex’s original assignment, adding bullet points to her to-do list, like playing in a recital and completing Elizabeth’s true-love questionnaire, as well as further obligations to do other things that scare her for a week straight.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 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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Mitre describes a type confusion vulnerability, also known as common weakness enumeration 843, as occurring when a resource such as a pointer or object is accessed by a resource using an incompatible type.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Patches are commonly developed for critical vulnerability enumerations (CVEs).—
Austin Gadient,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Those two early blows set the tone for a litany of unrelenting injuries in Hurzeler’s first season at Brighton.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
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Among the litany of scientific misinformation Kennedy has spread is the false claim that poppers cause AIDS.—
David Mack,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Recitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recitation. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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