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recitations

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plural of recitation

as in recitals

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Perform 5 to 10 repetitions of whichever variation is appropriate for you.

— Dana Santas, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
With Dru Smith sidelined by a calf strain sustained during training camp, Larsson had wound up taking repetitions at point guard, including during that preseason-opening victory over the Raptors.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

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Keeping the camera still in a courthouse’s small, windowless chambers, Depardon depicts these face-to-face showdowns as litanies of misery, as the officials make suspects confront the grim circumstances leading to their arrests.

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
Hval’s restless melodies and at-times Proustian lyrics trail cigarette smoke or the fragrance of roses toward litanies of memory, all the while deconstructing the very natures of stage performance, recording technology, and digital existence.

— Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025

Definition of litanies

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Constraints, enumerations and referential integrity are miserable work for a person in front of an open gearbox.

— Julien Vantyghem, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026

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