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recap

[ree-kap, ree-kap, ree-kap] / ˈriˌkæp, riˈkæp, ˈriˌkæp /




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Here is a recap of notable comments Trump made in public remarks and on social media during half a year of war:

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

She now watches Owens’s show, on every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and creates recap videos on her Instagram page, which has amassed nearly 100,000 followers and is regularly reposted by Owens herself.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

To recap: Purcell punishes a plaintiff in voting cases for being too late to court.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

A brief recap of the past dozen years in bubbles:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

I’d sat in on enough of these tests to know that protocol dictated that we sit and watch our recap in front of the panel.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Message boards erupted, and Neal, the YouTuber who regularly recapped “Bachelor” episodes on his show, dug into the paternity fray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

His recent visit to Vietnam was recapped on TikTok over a techno rave soundtrack.

From BBC ● May 1, 2025

Every lyric is recapped as a presumed confession, combed for autobiographical Easter eggs and compared, true crime Reddit-style, to the forensic files of her life and loves.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

The first “Rebel Moon,” released on Netflix in December, made audiences endure a gantlet of narrative groundwork that’s fairly inessential and recapped here.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

I recapped all of this to Trevor, who now stared at me with a pained expression on his face.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

A couple of posts later, Zach Witkoff added another message, a video recapping the “World Liberty Forum” held at Mar-a-Lago in February.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

As DA Davidson analyst Clark Wright says in his note recapping Phreesia’s fourth quarter earnings, “there are several moving pieces to the story.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026

Instead, Williams is doing what he does most Sundays between September and January: recapping the game with a parody of a popular song.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

But his speech on Sunday avoided that issue entirely, instead recapping his election victory and hitting on themes – including immigration, crime and foreign trade – that were mainstays of his campaign.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

It was late that night when Katherine and Jimmy tucked the girls into their beds and collapsed onto their own bed, but they stayed up even later laughing and gossiping, recapping the family gathering.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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