recapitulate

Example Sentences

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In a sense it has been: dozens of recent surveys have recapitulated these findings.

From Scientific American

There is always a narrative risk when recapitulating events in historical fiction — predetermination can deaden the pulse.

From New York Times

It may seem that Field and Blanchett are collaborating in a topical tale of crime and punishment, which the debate about the relevance of Bach’s behavior to his canonical status recapitulates in miniature.

From New York Times

Later, Carl and Yaya have a protracted argument about sex, money and the politics thereof that is recapitulated throughout “Triangle of Sadness” in ways both subtle and obvious.

From Washington Post

They recast events the reader already knows something about, lending the novel a sense of perpetual circling and recapitulating.

From Los Angeles Times