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recapitulate

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


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Rather than recapitulate historical chronicles, Mr. Enrigue imagines the event from the Aztec point of view, creating an account that is gory, hallucinatory and thrilling in its strangeness.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 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

The organoids recapitulate hallmarks of pregestational diabetes-induced congenital heart disease found in mice and humans.

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

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

The new model, in contrast, recapitulates the development of all three sections of embryonic brain and spinal cord simultaneously, a feat that has not been achieved in previous models.

From Science Daily Feb. 26, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2023

After all, her professional trajectory perfectly recapitulates her times.

From Seattle Times May 9, 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

The spontaneous development of liver cancer from a fatty liver can therefore only be recapitulated and investigated if all these factors interact.

From Science Daily May 7, 2024

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

From Scientific American Mar. 20, 2023

The infamous climax of that story recapitulated the depraved ambitions of a would-be rubber baron who conscripts Indigenous villagers to drag a ship through a steep jungle denuded for that purpose.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2022

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

She recapitulated the motives which no doubt explained Robert’s reserve.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

"Our concept is recapitulating development: FOXF1 is expressed during development and in healthy tissue, but it decreases with age," Purmessur Walter said.

From Science Daily May 16, 2024

Sometimes his playing sounds like a kind of focused preaching; sometimes he’s babbling or scrambling notes at high speed; all the while he’s also resolving and recapitulating.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2024

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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