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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

"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

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

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

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

These self-organizing heart organoids, or Cardioids, recapitulated the development of the heart's left ventricular chamber in the very early days of embryogenesis.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 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

“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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