How to Use recapitulate in a Sentence

recapitulate

verb
  • To recapitulate what was said earlier, we need to develop new ways to gain customers.
  • We understood your point, there's no need to recapitulate.
  • As varied as the styles and messages of these projects are, many recapitulate the passage from shock to hope.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The failure to do so will simply recapitulate the myriad mistakes of past.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 25 June 2021
  • There is a main theme , recapitulated, echoed , enhanced by its variations, many movements, intrigue, in the melodies.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Over the past year, Libyans have been riveted by an atrocity that seemed to recapitulate all the worst aspects of the Qaddafi era.
    — New York Times, 30 July 2021
  • The trauma of the congressional baseball shooting will unfold and recapitulate itself in our minds for some time.
    — Rand Paul, CNN, 16 June 2017
  • But that adoration eventually limits the work’s scope, forcing it to recapitulate a handful of themes to get us to the credits.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
  • By recapitulating this structure, a computer can do anything nature can.
    — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • And yet, in its intimacy and intensity, the campus recapitulates the city’s virtues.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
  • In the outer layer, many of the behaviors ended up recapitulating strategies used by human players.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2019
  • Wednesday’s hearing largely recapitulated the attacks on EcoHealth that have been floating in the right-wing fever swamp for four years now.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Literacy changed human consciousness, a transformation that is recapitulated with each child who learns to read and write.
    — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Throughout their conversation, both Musk and Shapiro recapitulated their views on a number of hot-button themes.
    — Natalia Ojewska, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • All the power of the Gershwin score is reinforced and recapitulated in the choreography as well as the scenic designs, which reference a gallery of painters of the era.
    — Joanne Ostrow, The Know, 13 Mar. 2017
  • These cells live and interact in a solution, recapitulating many unique features of human brain development.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2018
  • But the algorithm struggled to recapitulate objects, such as a clock tower, from the real photo and instead created abstract figures.
    — Bykamal Nahas, science.org, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Whatever happens, though, China’s coming wave won’t recapitulate the one that swept most of the world in early 2020.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The Court’s decision does more than recapitulate some of the worst opinions of our constitutional history.
    — Aziz Huq, Vox, 26 June 2018
  • In the mice that recapitulate MS, testosterone influences the behavior of mast cells in the lymph nodes, central nervous system, and lining of the brain.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
  • In some sense, says Povinelli, these chimps may be recapitulating the evolutionary drama that produced self-awareness in some ape-human ancestor.
    — Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The Biggest Loser study didn’t just recapitulate this disheartening rule of thumb, however.
    — Daniel Engber, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The film’s reboot recapitulates the original storyline almost exactly and with an impressively straight face.
    — Nitin K. Ahuja, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The whole point of immunization is to recapitulate infection in a safer, more palatable package, like a driver’s ed simulation, or a practice quiz handed out in advance of a final exam.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Themes of oppression, vengeance, and resistance are developed and recapitulated throughout, and there’s also a strange coda, in which Scorsese himself turns up.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For those whose own families have treated them with ambivalent hostility, the upswing of hate crimes since the election recapitulates old experiences of rejection.
    — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Those organisms can regrow entire limbs — bone, muscle, cartilage and all — by recapitulating a developmental program from a bud-like structure that forms on the injury site.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The comic version is much more red and gold, recapitulating Iron Man's colorways, but both served as visual and narrative reminders of ties between the two characters.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 3 July 2019
  • Like many secretaries of state, Blinken wants to recapitulate Henry Kissinger’s legendary shuttle diplomacy of the mid ’70s.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • That dilemma was hypothetical when embryo models could only recapitulate the very earliest stages of development.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2023

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