recapitulation
Example Sentences
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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
But all but the most uninformed readers are in for quite a bit of recapitulation, often of facts that are already canonical.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2022
That first half-hour of testimony was sort of a microcosmic recapitulation of Palin’s 2008 debut on the national stage.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2022
The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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