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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These self-organizing heart organoids, or Cardioids, recapitulated the development of the heart's left ventricular chamber in the very early days of embryogenesis.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
In that moment it became irrelevant how well I recapitulated Dostoevsky, as long as I kept his element of surprise.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2022
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
“It seemed like the hair, in a way, recapitulated what we know happens at the cellular level,” Picard says.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 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
