recapitulate

Example Sentences

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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

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

Then, using fluorescence microscopy, the team revealed the presence of oxytocin directly on human intestinal organoids, also called mini guts, which are laboratory models of intestinal tissue that recapitulate many of its functions and structure.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee