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recapitulate
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  • Now, let me recapitulate your request, your demand, as it were—†  (source)
  • I tend to recapitulate phylogeny every morning.†  (source)
  • When he was doing ghost games he liked to take the action into the stands, inventing a kid chasing a foul ball, a carrot-topped boy with a cowlick (shameless, ain't I) who retrieves the ball and holds it aloft, this five-ounce sphere of cork, rubber, yarn, horsehide and spiral stitching, a souvenir baseball, a priceless thing somehow, a thing that seems to recapitulate the whole history of the game every time it is thrown or hit or touched.†  (source)
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  • But let me recapitulate for you.†  (source)
  • He lay back on the sponge-rubber couch and recapitulated his plans.†  (source)
  • Tolstoy then recapitulates in a few paragraphs the theory of art which he had expressed at greater length elsewhere.†  (source)
  • He gave me a pecking, recapitulating kiss, his black beard thrust at me like a shoe.†  (source)
  • Now may I recapitulate: He reported the Spaniard's conversation to you, informed on the Spaniard's tour of the North Country, warned against a possible rebellion there.†  (source)
  • He recapitulated the Wennerström affair and explained that Blomkvist had left Millennium in disgrace and that he had recently served a prison term.†  (source)
  • The convention recapitulates the career of the poems themselves, which passed into later European literature via Latin epic traditions.†  (source)
  • She was a good student, a captain in net ball, a senior prefect, and showing promise in Bharatnatyam, finding in herself a talent for recapitulating a most intricate dance sequence after being shown it just once.†  (source)
  • Dick hesitated on the verge of the truth, swung away to give himself space within which to recapitulate.†  (source)
  • First, I interviewed the domestics, and with their aid, I recapitulated the evening.†  (source)
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