recapitulated

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"We were amazed to discover that our evolution experiment in tiny flasks had recapitulated the complex patterns that had been previously observed between bacteria and viruses collected at regional and transoceanic scales," said Borin.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

The infamous climax of that story recapitulated the depraved ambitions of a would-be rubber baron who conscripts Indigenous villagers to drag a ship through a steep jungle denuded for that purpose.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022

In his ruling on Andrew’s motion to dismiss the case, the judge recapitulated the allegations in Ms. Giuffre’s lawsuit.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

“It seemed like the hair, in a way, recapitulated what we know happens at the cellular level,” Picard says.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2021

That same year de Vries published his monumental study of plant variants, Carl Correns, a botanist in Tübingen, published a study on pea and maize hybrids that precisely recapitulated Mendel’s results.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee