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retelling

[ ree-tel-ing ]

noun

  1. a new, and often updated or retranslated, version of a story.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of retelling1

First recorded in 1635–45; re- + tell 1 + -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Sailor Moon Crystal is a more ambitious retelling of multiple Sailor Moon story arcs.

Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.

But perhaps most damaging of all was the retelling of an act of humiliation on a female student.

Unfortunately, Obama seems wedded to the myth of spending multipliers that get more outlandish with each retelling.

Ramin Setoodeh takes an 8-year-old girl to see the retelling of Snow White to investigate.

In the retelling of it, I have left out most of the history.

The remainder of the night was spent in the hut, Nat telling and retelling his wild experience in the flume.

And it seems that with each retelling the story grows more and still more wonderful.

They are just the sort of narratives that small folks love, and are designed for retelling in the kindergarten and home.

The epic story of Kerensky's magnificently heroic fight to recreate the Russian army is too well known to need retelling here.

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