recapitulate
verb (used with object)
to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
was recapitulating
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past progressiveof recapitulate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His concern was not that Grenada was recapitulating any past disaster; on the contrary, it was creating for the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean a wholly new one.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was recapitulating what they had not said, but what the two were thinking of at the same time.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
I had now balanced advantages and disadvantages together, and was recapitulating the whole.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Paul was recapitulating to Lydia the advantages of the location of their house.
From The Squirrel-Cage by John Alanzo Williams
This was a wily speech; for Richard was recapitulating the very arguments which were presenting themselves to the old man's mind.
From Bred in the Bone by James Payn
