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US
/ˌɹiˈkaʊnt, ɹɪˈkaʊnt/
]
VERB
-
count again
We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made -
narrate or give a detailed account of
The father told a story to his child
Tell what happened
NOUN
- an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
How To Use recount In A Sentence
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
- He was again recounting the incredible story of his life. The Sun
- She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm.
- This could still change because votes in one Victoria seat were being recounted. Times, Sunday Times
- Finally, the Clerk involves voters in facilitating not only recounts and redundant checks but revotes as well.
- I will hereafter refer to it in the singular, so as to avoid having to recount exactly which one was pointed at what at any given moment.
- The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh , a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus" . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- 'motormouth' TV host not later recounted the story in a newspaper column. Home | Mail Online
- But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.