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recall English

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recall Verb

— If you recall something, you think about something you learned or experienced in the past. She recalled a childhood summer camp in the Tetons, singing around a campfire. She recalled an incident at school when her son was seven. I don't recall seeing any situation like that. And you have a two children, as I recall. He recalls that his grandmother gave him his first taste of wine at age 4 or 5. — If you recall a worker, you officially ask them to come back to a job or place. The workers were recalled after a two month layoff. — If you recall a product, you tell stores and customers to send it back because it has a problem.

recall Noun

— Recall is your ability to think about something you learned or experienced in the past. You can improve your recall by using memory tricks. — A recall is a request to stores and customers to send back a product because it has a problem. The company is announcing the recall of fifteen different products.

recall

— verb (= remember, call up, think) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection I can't remember saying any such thing I can't think what her last name was can you remember her phone number? Do you remember that he once loved you? call up memories — verb (= hark back) go back to something earlier This harks back to a previous remark of his — verb (= call back) summon to return The ambassador was recalled to his country The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession — verb cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression She was recalled by a loud laugh — verb (= echo) call to mind His words echoed John F. Kennedy — verb make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty — verb (= call back) cause to be returned recall the defective auto tires The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt — noun the act of removing an official by petition — noun the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) he has total recall of the episode — noun a bugle call that signals troops to return — noun a call to return the recall of our ambassador — noun a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

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recall English » English

remember recollect call back recollection memory call to mind think back remembrance withdraw think think of retract revoke reminiscence reflect recognize consider cancel bring back bear in mind take back return retrieve repeal reminisce remembering look back hark back callback call in bring to mind withdrawal study review restore resemble rescind remind recant recall ratio recall factor ponder miss keep in mind fetch evoke echo countermand come back cancellation

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Simple sentences

Tom couldn't recall his name.
I cannot recall what Tom exactly said.
I can't recall her name.
I can recall seeing those pictures.
The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.
Ken couldn't recall his name.
I recall less and less of my childhood.
I failed to recall the song's title.
I can't recall her name at the moment.
I don't recall ever wanting to be a fireman or a baseball player as a youth.
I may have met him somewhere before, but I can't recall where.
I frequently recall my happy childhood.
Let us briefly recall an important result from group theory.
What was the name of the hotel? I can't recall it.
I can't recall the exact words.
There was a problem with the architecture of that company's new computer. They're going through a recall frenzy right now.
I don't recall.
I recall feeling so good at that time.
Do you even recall me?
I can recall nothing worse.

Movie subtitles

Well, not that I recall.
Because both Brenda White and Janelle Peacocke recall you leaving later, after Declan collapsed, which was just after 10am.
Do you recall a Dr Roger Plummer visiting?
Not that I recall.
The neighbours don't recall seeing her this morning.
That's all I recall. Oh, strange.
I distinctly recall seeing a pair of curved ones in your possession yesterday.
You may recall what I said last evening.
I don't seem to recall the occasion.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Ditherwell, Mr. Fitzgerald doesn't seem to recall your name.
Yes. I recall it.
Do you recall anything of that world before you came back?
I wish to recall Colonel Picquart to the stand.
Now, as I recall the past, I have difficulty in believing that it was really like that But the truth is beyond any commiseration. M. Gorky.
As I recall, your mission was to do away with the cyborgs, was it not?
And doing pretty well, as I recall it.
Sorry. I don't seem to recall the occasion.
I fail to recall your exact duties here, Countess Elizabeth.
Mr. Bligh, may I recall the outward voyage?
I recall it.
As a matter of fact I'm trying to recall my movements between five and six today.
Well, I don't recall the addresses but, well, all over Europe.
Wouldn't it be a good idea if we recall the prisoner and asked him a few questions?
We simply wanted viewers to be able to recall the wild imaginings of their youth.
She borrowed the sugar. -l recall passing the sugar.
But as I recall it, Sir Charles died from natural causes, heart failure.
Enough to get out a special edition asking for your recall.
To you, dames You don't recall their names Do you?
I truly can't recall because. something much more important had happened.
I've been trying to recall the places we went on our honeymoon.
In all the years I've been in office...I can recall.
I DO NOT RECALL IT.
Just long enough for us to get our special edition, asking for your recall.
I burst with pride when I recall Johnathan's contribution to Pyncheon tradition.
I recall my great uncle.
Many times asked Cossacks, but they either can't recall the old Dnieper spread out as wide as this spring.
I don't recall you ever asked me, Sheriff.
You may recall what German guarantees have been worth in the past.

News and current affairs

Watching the news from Iraq, I recall when I was Poland's Prime Minister during the Gulf War in 1991.
I recall that fateful Saturday afternoon with utter clarity, strolling through Kiev with my six-year-old daughter, oblivious to the danger.
We would do well to recall how, at the beginning of the 1990's, book after book was still being written urging US and European corporations to imitate Japan or face certain doom.
Now, as investors recall the extent of US financial problems, we will again see the dollar resume its decline.
I still recall the difficulty that I faced, as South Korea's foreign minister, in convincing Bush administration policymakers to negotiate with North Korea instead of merely applying pressure and waiting for the North to capitulate.
Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO.
Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements seem to recall the Soviet era with nostalgia.
Recall how the fateful decision to situate the IMF in Washington, DC enhanced the influence of the US Treasury just down the street.
But it is instructive to recall that many of those now-universally-admired rules were fiercely resisted when first proposed.
One need only recall the bidding for Emcore or Firstgold.
We will not know for some time, but the debaters should recall Thucydides' warning more than two millennia ago that belief in the inevitability of conflict can become one of its main causes.
Recall that the OPEC oil shocks of the 1970's incited two world recessions.
Recall that in May 2006, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russia's ambassador to Ukraine, said that Russia would be willing to reduce the price of natural gas it charged Ukraine if that country adopted a less pro-Western orientation.
Recall the beginnings of the crisis: the British bank Northern Rock, for example, is now seen as a notorious example of how poor communication and information sharing among just three national authorities can easily make matters worse.
JERUSALEM - In my nearly nine decades of life, I cannot recall a time in which the past was so irrelevant to policymaking.
It is hard to recall, but a little over a decade ago, conventional wisdom - both inside and outside the US - held that America was in decline.
It is a day for young people to recall the sacrifices that their families have made for them, and consider the kinds of sacrifices they will make for their families.
In the face of anti-monarchist revolutionary fervor, Parliament - as Cameron should recall - passed the Licensing Order of 1643, which imposed pre-publication censorship on the British press.
I can recall countless instances of - how can I best put it? - Putin and his colleagues economizing with the truth on a spectacular scale.
The president is the head of state and commander-in-chief; officiates over the Supreme Judiciary Council, the Supreme Police Council, and the Cabinet of Ministers; and can appoint and recall one or more vice-presidents at his sole discretion.
It would be useful in the current climate of fear to recall a famous hate-speech case in the US.

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