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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The failure to do so will simply recapitulate the myriad mistakes of past.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 25 June 2021
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To recapitulate: the party that controls the White House almost always loses House seats in midterm elections.
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
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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
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The trauma of the congressional baseball shooting will unfold and recapitulate itself in our minds for some time.
—Rand Paul, CNN, 16 June 2017
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And yet, in its intimacy and intensity, the campus recapitulates the city’s virtues.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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How children recapitulate the mistakes of their parents.
—Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 10 May 2017
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The Court’s decision does more than recapitulate some of the worst opinions of our constitutional history.
—Aziz Huq, Vox, 26 June 2018
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In the outer layer, many of the behaviors ended up recapitulating strategies used by human players.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Biggest Loser study didn’t just recapitulate this disheartening rule of thumb, however.
—Daniel Engber, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These cells live and interact in a solution, recapitulating many unique features of human brain development.
—Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2018
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By recapitulating this structure, a computer can do anything nature can.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
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The film’s reboot recapitulates the original storyline almost exactly and with an impressively straight face.
—Nitin K. Ahuja, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
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