Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2023

We are aware that the great improvements which we have recapitulated were, in many respects, imperfectly and unskilfully executed.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I would not have heard, nor I believe would he have recapitulated, just at that moment, for half the world, the details of the hideous vision which had so unmanned him.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I think, indeed, I must have been most of the time hysterical with horror, for the vibrating emotions I have recapitulated did pass through my brain even as I have detailed them.

From The Man In The Reservoir by Hoffman, Charles Fenno

Everybody knows the brass knocker is common to suburban villas, and extensive boarding-schools; and having noticed this genus we have recapitulated all the most prominent and strongly-defined species.

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles