recapitulate
verb (used with object)
to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
has recapitulated
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present perfectof recapitulate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His own family with Ethel has recapitulated the family pattern of service and loss Jean Ann Kennedy Smith 1928-present Husband Stephen managed R.F.K.'s campaigns, then Kennedy charities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polybius, in his minute account of this celebrated military institution of the Greeks, has recapitulated nearly all the advantages and defects imputed to the Swiss hérisson, by modern European writers.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott
