recited; reciting
1
: to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
2
3
: to repeat or answer questions about (a lesson)
1
: to repeat or read aloud something memorized or prepared
2
: to reply to a teacher's question on a lesson
reciter
noun
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Examples of recite in a Sentence
He recited the poem with great feeling.
He began to recite from the Koran.
He can easily recite all the facts about any player on the team.
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The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women.
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
She’s clearly meant for better things than stiffly reciting wooden slasher-movie dialogue in lifeless Scream retreads.
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—Colleen Hagerty, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
She’s clearly meant for better things than stiffly reciting wooden slasher-movie dialogue in lifeless Scream retreads.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
On a foggy Saturday morning last fall, Colette Curtis, recovery and economic-development director for the town of Paradise, recited a list of the warning systems the town had established before the Camp Fire.
—Colleen Hagerty, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
The music of jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava washes over the dining room as solicitous waiters recite the evening’s specials, their delivery unaffected by the thud of bombs falling on a neighborhood nearby.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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recite
verb
re·cite
ri-ˈsīt 
recited; reciting
1
: to repeat from memory or read aloud before an audience
recite a poem
2
: to tell all the details of
3
: to answer questions about a lesson
reciter
noun
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