recapitulation
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Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
And the judge said the appeal bid did not add to the claim but was a "recapitulation of the case" that had previously been brought.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024
Schaffer: Once we knew we were going to do this recapitulation of the “Seinfeld” finale, the question was how far do we take it?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Compared with the recapitulation of these notes around the two-hour, nine-minute mark, the entry of certain notes during the exposition hits more harshly.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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