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Recent Examples of recitation
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker deviated from the usual recitation of facts at this year’s State of the City address and instead chose to highlight the stories of individual residents.
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Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2025
More than a dozen early cases generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools.
—Lydia Artz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Just as there are many productions of Ibsen’s A Doll House, and each is unique to the actors and theatre performing it, every recitation of a book is a singular performance.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
His Dune set diaries are one piece of proof; his recitation-off on The Late Show is another.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recitation
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According to TVLine, one of the items in the backpack was a drawing of Ava at her first-grade recital, proving that Roman had been watching his family from afar.—
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Carly had been awarded honorable mention in the spring American Protégé International Music Talent Competition and was invited to play in a recital program at Carnegie.—
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Over time, increase the repetitions using light weights, then gradually progress to heavier loads, Forsyth recommended.—
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Some apps, like Duolingo, use spaced repetition, but don’t always provide authentic cultural context, which is important for learning intuitively, said Sauer.—
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No one needs an enumeration of all the positive effects of exercise, on health, on social connections, on self-esteem, or otherwise.—
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But first consider the majority of the text of the Declaration: a stirring enumeration of specific grievances by the American colonists against the British crown.—
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An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose remarkable biodiversity has long been threatened by the region's litany of conflicts.—
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Odessa A’zion joined a litany of A-listers for Nominees Night, hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and Spotify as part of Golden Week, on Thursday in Los Angeles, donning a hairdo much tamer than her typical style.—
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“Recitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recitation. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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