How to Use recapitulate in a Sentence

recapitulate

verb

• To recapitulate what was said earlier, we need to develop new ways to gain customers.
• We understood your point, there's no need to recapitulate.
• As varied as the styles and messages of these projects are, many recapitulate the passage from shock to hope.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
• Over the past year, Libyans have been riveted by an atrocity that seemed to recapitulate all the worst aspects of the Qaddafi era.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• In the mice that recapitulate MS, testosterone influences the behavior of mast cells in the lymph nodes, central nervous system, and lining of the brain.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• All the power of the Gershwin score is reinforced and recapitulated in the choreography as well as the scenic designs, which reference a gallery of painters of the era.
  — Joanne Ostrow, The Know, 13 Mar. 2017
• Whatever happens, though, China’s coming wave won’t recapitulate the one that swept most of the world in early 2020.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2022
• The failure to do so will simply recapitulate the myriad mistakes of past.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 25 June 2021
• To recapitulate: the party that controls the White House almost always loses House seats in midterm elections.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
• But that adoration eventually limits the work’s scope, forcing it to recapitulate a handful of themes to get us to the credits.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
• The trauma of the congressional baseball shooting will unfold and recapitulate itself in our minds for some time.
  — Rand Paul, CNN, 16 June 2017
• And yet, in its intimacy and intensity, the campus recapitulates the city’s virtues.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
• But longevity allowed him a career in almost perfect sonata form, with a final period that recapitulated some of the joy of the first without ever trying to evade what had come between.
  — Douglas Murray, National Review, 11 July 2019
• The comic version is much more red and gold, recapitulating Iron Man's colorways, but both served as visual and narrative reminders of ties between the two characters.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 3 July 2019
• How children recapitulate the mistakes of their parents.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• The Court’s decision does more than recapitulate some of the worst opinions of our constitutional history.
  — Aziz Huq, Vox, 26 June 2018
• In the outer layer, many of the behaviors ended up recapitulating strategies used by human players.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2019
• But the algorithm struggled to recapitulate objects, such as a clock tower, from the real photo and instead created abstract figures.
  — Bykamal Nahas, science.org, 7 Mar. 2023
• Themes of oppression, vengeance, and resistance are developed and recapitulated throughout, and there’s also a strange coda, in which Scorsese himself turns up.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• The whole point of immunization is to recapitulate infection in a safer, more palatable package, like a driver’s ed simulation, or a practice quiz handed out in advance of a final exam.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2021
• And their concerns are related: Trump’s ability to recapitulate or expand his winning coalition depends in large part on the identity of his opponent.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2 Nov. 2019
• The Biggest Loser study didn’t just recapitulate this disheartening rule of thumb, however.
  — Daniel Engber, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2020
• Those organisms can regrow entire limbs — bone, muscle, cartilage and all — by recapitulating a developmental program from a bud-like structure that forms on the injury site.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
• But, recapitulating his problem from four years ago, the lack of enthusiasm for a Biden presidency from Obama’s inner circle is palpable.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
• For those whose own families have treated them with ambivalent hostility, the upswing of hate crimes since the election recapitulates old experiences of rejection.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2017
• Those ripe, quiet seconds, with their intimation of Shange’s presence through art, recapitulated a theme that had been building all night, and which is intrinsic to this ecstatic new production, directed by Leah C. Gardiner.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• On the one extreme is Elevian’s reductionist approach, which attempts to recapitulate the benefits of young blood through supplementation with a single pro-youthful factor.
  — Elie Dolgin, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• These cells live and interact in a solution, recapitulating many unique features of human brain development.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2018
• By recapitulating this structure, a computer can do anything nature can.
  — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
• The film’s reboot recapitulates the original storyline almost exactly and with an impressively straight face.
  — Nitin K. Ahuja, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024