Example Sentences

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Sometimes his playing sounds like a kind of focused preaching; sometimes he’s babbling or scrambling notes at high speed; all the while he’s also resolving and recapitulating.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Animal models for Parkinson's disease have provided some insight into Parkinsons disease, however as rodents do not naturally develop Parkinson's disease, animal studies proved unsatisfactory in recapitulating hallmark features of the disease.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

They recast events the reader already knows something about, lending the novel a sense of perpetual circling and recapitulating.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022

“It’s always a question when we’re trying to model disease using rodents: Are we really recapitulating the changes that are observed in humans?”

From Science Magazine • Oct. 6, 2021

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