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recapitulate

[ree-kuh-pich-uh-layt] / ˌri kəˈpɪtʃ əˌleɪt /


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“It would be tedious as well as unwelcome,” Lord Halifax said on another occasion, “to recapitulate all our wrong steps.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

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

But it remains unclear to what extent rodent models recapitulate abnormalities present in humans, given critical species differences in heart size, cardiac physiology, electrophysiology, and bioenergetics.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024

What is important is that gastruloids recapitulate some features of early development even without the external cues from the placenta or yolk sac that typically direct the organization of an early embryo.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023

Yet, uncannily, the trajectory of his psyche had begun to recapitulate Jagu’s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

His book claimed that its menu of animal proteins and unprocessed vegetables recapitulates the diet of our Stone Age ancestors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

"Our study is the first comprehensive demonstration of a genetically defined cardiac reflex, which faithfully recapitulates characteristics of human syncope at physiological, behavioral and neural network levels."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023

Toni Morrison’s “A Mercy,” in less than 200 pages, effectively recapitulates America’s tortuous racial history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

"We were amazed to discover that our evolution experiment in tiny flasks had recapitulated the complex patterns that had been previously observed between bacteria and viruses collected at regional and transoceanic scales," said Borin.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

Martin Scorsese famously quoted it in 1990’s “Goodfellas,” in which Joe Pesci recapitulated Barnes’s brazen act of impunity, this time as a New York gangster.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

“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

With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Her attorney wrote back Wednesday, recapitulating her defense that this was an “inadvertent oversight,” since Ms. Cook sought the mortgage for a “Vacation Home,” and the lender knew where she actually lived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

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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