recapitulation
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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
Flurries of repetitions and recapitulations trip up the narrative.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021
Cale has always thought of art as fluid rather than static—he has rarely been satisfied by recapitulations of the status quo.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2017
Endless recapitulations of depredations: This is what Naomi sees; this is what slavery was.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2016
The mind that habitually exhibits skill in divisions, definitions, generalizations, and systematic recapitulations no longer needs training in logical methods.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
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