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US
/ˌɹikəˈpɪtʃəˌɫeɪt/
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VERB
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
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summarize briefly
Let's recapitulate the main ideas
How To Use recapitulate In A Sentence
- While the most damage and destroy is attribute to the vehicles load recapitulate impaction.
- It will shortly be put up for sale under the terms already communicated to you, which, to recapitulate, call for a very minimum of publicity.
- I've written an essay expanding upon my reasons for disesteeming his work, so I won't recapitulate those reasons here.
- EIIA-Cre mediated ablation of Wwox expression recapitulated the observed defects in normal mouse bone development. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since.
- You know, recapitulate in your unconscious the dynamics of your father's and my divorce? THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. II: STOP, DON'T STOP
- The German zoologist, Ernst Haeckel, suggested, in this theory, the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny means that as over the short time span of nine months, a fetus, in the womb, goes through ontogenetic phases of development, it recapitulates the stages of development we see as we go up the evolutional scale -- phylogenetically, that took billions of years to develop. Printing: A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
- ‘Each man kills the thing he loves,’ sings Moreau in reedy, exhausted tones that recapitulate the inevitable downward trajectory of every star's career.
- It will shortly be put up for sale under the terms already communicated to you, which, to recapitulate, call for a very minimum of publicity.
- The conclusion recapitulates and summarizes the main findings of the work.