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verb

recapitulate

summarize briefly

In a sentence

Six example sentences with recapitulate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Before the questions, she took two minutes to recapitulate three years of fieldwork for an audience of undergraduates.

    Science

  • The opening voiceover recapitulates the first two films so newcomers can follow the plot without any homework.

    Movies

  • Let me recapitulate the argument: cheap credit raised asset prices, and wages never followed them upward.

    Economics

  • In closing, the lawyer recapitulated the three facts nobody disputed and asked the jury to start from there.

    Law

  • Each Monday the manager recapitulates last week's numbers in ninety seconds before anyone opens a laptop.

    Business

  • The final chapter recapitulates the argument in two pages, which is where most students should have started.

    Philosophy

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