REMEMBERS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

remembers

verb

present tense third-person singular of remember

as in recalls

to bring back to mind I remember very clearly the fun we had that long-ago summer, but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday

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Recent Examples of remembers But War suddenly remembers that Johnny is supposed to be a mole of some consequence. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 This was the call Hunter Armistead, Pattern’s CEO, remembers getting from his head engineer when the turbines came online for the very first time. — Sara Herschander, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026 In 2001, Michelle remembers hiding under her desk and hearing helicopters circling over her school. — Taylor Galgano, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026 Today Wagner is 96, and Natasha doesn’t want the last thing the world remembers about him to be an accusation that no court ever formally made. — Gustavo Egusquiza, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026 The world remembers an icon, but The Greatest is about a man, a husband, a father, a brother and a son. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 Jorgelina Andrea del Valle Torres, the Argentine neoperreo artist known as Ms Nina, also remembers those first parties affectionately. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Peggy Medlin remembers being so fast as a teenager that her boss let the other two loopers go. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 Advertisement Salvador remembers a teacher who was struggling to speak loudly enough for her class. — Angela Haupt, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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recalls

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Alongside church traditions, the album recalls Terry Riley’s minimalism, in which the repetition of musical patterns produces a kind of hypnotic stasis.

— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Device for Exhaling the Tremor (2025), a large sculpture by Celeste Martinez Abburra, explicitly recalls the stainless steel and glass beakers of a chemistry laboratory.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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