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recapitulate

[ree-kuh-pich-uh-leyt] / 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

"In many cases, animal models simply do not recapitulate either the characteristics or the degree of severity seen in human brain diseases such as microcephaly," Song said.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 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