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re-collect 

When you have emergency bowel pressure and you have to pause your step, clench your butt, and hope the pressure eases so you can make it to the toilet (or at least some location where the clean-up is less conspicuous)
I made it home after a two hour drive and I had to stop in the garage and re-collect before I blew my o-ring and sharted. Luckily, after a pause and a cold sweat, I continued into the house and made it to the bathroom.
re-collect by Bigg Tiggs December 14, 2024
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Recollections may vary 

Your a lying one-upmanship victim whinger.
Meghan: I have been subject to racial and other abuse.

Queen Elizabeth II: Recollections may vary.

I have no recollection 

Typically invoked by governmental officials during sworn testimony to the U.S. Congress to deny potentially damaging -- politically and/or criminally -- behavior.
From the 1994 film "Clear and Present Danger" starring Harrison Ford:

Jack Ryan: Who authorized this?
Robert Ritter: I'm sure they'll ask you that.
Jack Ryan: Who authorized it?
Robert Ritter: I have no recollection, Senator

convenient recollection 

A memory recalled inacuratley, to unconsciously protect against guilt, anxiety, or unwanted associations.
Are you kidding? She must be having convenient recollection!

recollection 

Teh process of thinking back to when times were either worse or better - all thoughts being memories.
My recollection of that holiday was that it was the start of a nationwide phenomena

memory recollection fragmentation 

Only being able to remember particular fragments of memories or ideas from an earlier time where the context of such memories are no longer recoverable.
I had a really good idea last night, but can't seem to remember what it is. It must be a bad case of memory recollection fragmentation.

The guy has a really bad case of memory recollection fragmentation. It took all month to engineer the tissue to CPU membrane but forgot a critical step.

Old age produces memory recollection fragmentation. Most of our patients have trouble integrating life's memories into a coherent timeline.
1. To collect again after an attempted previous collection.
2. To refresh, rejuvenate oneself.
1. That goddamn orphanage keeps calling our house in a futile effort to recollect donations.
2. I hate everything right now; I need to go home, recollect myself, and read the dictionary.
recollect by Dr. Merriam-Webster February 20, 2009