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"Our concept is recapitulating development: FOXF1 is expressed during development and in healthy tissue, but it decreases with age," Purmessur Walter said.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

In Toward a Democratic Left, Author Harrington, 40, is recapitulating in dialectical terms his own crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Berlin is recapitulating the truths of the few as against the fallacies, vain hopes and naive beliefs of the many.

From Time Magazine Archive

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