recapitulation
Example Sentences
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Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
And the judge said the appeal bid did not add to the claim but was a "recapitulation of the case" that had previously been brought.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024
Schaffer: Once we knew we were going to do this recapitulation of the “Seinfeld” finale, the question was how far do we take it?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
But for Madison, who wrote the amendment, it was a “superfluous” recapitulation of the principle that the federal government was one of enumerated, not inherent, powers.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022
There is, I think, a kind of recapitulation that occurs in our individual intellectual developments as well.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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