All 3 Uses
recite
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- His occasional talks at weekly Party meetings were perfect recitations of the Party line.†
Chpt 3. *
- All graduates of the Vilnius Academy, many the "sons" of Marko and Natalia, they were men who owed their place and their rank to Ramius; men who cursed the inability of their country to build submarines worthy of their skills; men who had joined the Party as told and then become even more dissatisfied with the Motherland as they learned that the price of advancement was to prostitute one's mind and soul, to become a highly paid parrot in a blue jacket whose every Party recitation was a grating exercise in self-control.†
Chpt 3.
- Petchukocov could recite all this data in his sleep.†
Chpt 8.
Definitions:
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(1)
(recite) to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
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to say in detail -- especially a list of things -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The noun form, recitation, normally refers to the act of reciting or to what was recited; however, much more rarely, it can refer to a session in which a teaching assistant reviews and expands on a teacher's lecture.