recapitulate
verb (used with object)
to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
recapitulated
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past participleof recapitulate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof recapitulate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
recapitulateverb (used with object)to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
Example Sentences
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"We were amazed to discover that our evolution experiment in tiny flasks had recapitulated the complex patterns that had been previously observed between bacteria and viruses collected at regional and transoceanic scales," said Borin.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
In a sense it has been: dozens of recent surveys have recapitulated these findings.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2023
In his ruling on Andrew’s motion to dismiss the case, the judge recapitulated the allegations in Ms. Giuffre’s lawsuit.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
Martin Scorsese famously quoted it in 1990’s “Goodfellas,” in which Joe Pesci recapitulated Barnes’s brazen act of impunity, this time as a New York gangster.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
