recapitulate
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Rather than recapitulate historical chronicles, Mr. Enrigue imagines the event from the Aztec point of view, creating an account that is gory, hallucinatory and thrilling in its strangeness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Stopping these toxins could save countless lives and limbs, but laboratory research usually relies on cell-based research, which doesn’t accurately recapitulate what happens in a living animal.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 5, 2024
So we and many others have worked for decades to make a medicine that could recapitulate that naturally-occurring phenomenon.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
A method to correctly specify amnion formation is important to be able to recapitulate human embryo development as closely as possible using stem cell-based embryo models.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
Yet, uncannily, the trajectory of his psyche had begun to recapitulate Jagu’s.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Goldberg also recapitulates the stories about Trump's fascination with Adolf Hitler as told to him and the other authors by John Kelly.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024
This model recapitulates human heart development during the first trimester, including critical steps such as chamber formation, vascularization, cardiac tissue organization, and relevant cardiac cell types.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
Toni Morrison’s “A Mercy,” in less than 200 pages, effectively recapitulates America’s tortuous racial history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
After all, her professional trajectory perfectly recapitulates her times.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
The peculiar feature of his peep-show construction, that the viewer is looking at himself as well as at the painting, simply recapitulates this earlier tension.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Our model accurately recapitulated the disease phenotype, offering new insights into the underlying molecular and cellular pathology of cerebral vascular disorders," Guo says.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
In that moment it became irrelevant how well I recapitulated Dostoevsky, as long as I kept his element of surprise.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2022
In his ruling on Andrew’s motion to dismiss the case, the judge recapitulated the allegations in Ms. Giuffre’s lawsuit.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
“It seemed like the hair, in a way, recapitulated what we know happens at the cellular level,” Picard says.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2021
And all the weight, all the weariness of it, had recapitulated itself in his body; he felt the physical burden.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Animal models for Parkinson's disease have provided some insight into Parkinsons disease, however as rodents do not naturally develop Parkinson's disease, animal studies proved unsatisfactory in recapitulating hallmark features of the disease.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
They recast events the reader already knows something about, lending the novel a sense of perpetual circling and recapitulating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
“It’s always a question when we’re trying to model disease using rodents: Are we really recapitulating the changes that are observed in humans?”
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 6, 2021
A letter from the fund to investors at the end of July said that Musk “appears erratic and desperate,” recapitulating some of his provocative interactions with analysts, regulators and Twitter followers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2018
Hume, in distinguishing relations of ideas from matters of fact, is recapitulating the fundamental intellectual conflict which gave rise to the Scientific Revolution.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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