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US
/ˌɹikəˈpɪtʃəˌɫeɪt/
]
VERB
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
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summarize briefly
Let's recapitulate the main ideas
How To Use recapitulate In A Sentence
- To recapitulate, the nation-state favours national identity, while the communist state favours class, since nations are conceived to be in transition and a temporary phase to be overcome.
- The conclusion recapitulates and summarizes the main findings of the work.
- Though to say phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny is obviously wrong. Cheeseburger Gothic » Snip snip.
- The final tenth chapter recapitulates the similarities between leaders of human and simian societies, and provides a speculative discussion of the inevitability of war.
- But cognitive theories' dominance within psychological discourse induces many feminists to recapitulate these theories, overlooking their subtler gender biases.
- To recapitulate: this story has a long way to run, that much at least is clear.
- The heart of the work is its central set of variations, but it's the slow introduction, which is recapitulated as the fourth of the fifth sections, that casts a shadow across the entire work. Schubert: Fantasy in C; Sonata in A, etc – review
- Let's recapitulate the main ideas
- Recall that the central theme of monism is the so-called biogenetic law stating that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
- The story of the Union has been told on several occasions and there is no need to recapitulate it.