as in summary
a short statement of the main points
after a recap of this morning's meeting, we can discuss the issues that were raised
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as in to summarize
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)
please recap the highlights of the game for me
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Recent Examples of recap
Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 15 May 2026
Send the recap, ask the question, or confirm the plan.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Just to recap, Dach had the puck in overtime in the neutral zone but failed to gain the red line before flipping the puck down the ice to get a change, being forced to stay on the ice when that puck crossed the Lightning goal line for an icing.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Here's a recap of Friday's key moments.
—Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 15 May 2026
Send the recap, ask the question, or confirm the plan.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
Verb
Newspapers provided daily space to recap what happened in sports, not just locally, but across the country and the world.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Just to recap, Dach had the puck in overtime in the neutral zone but failed to gain the red line before flipping the puck down the ice to get a change, being forced to stay on the ice when that puck crossed the Lightning goal line for an icing.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Word with Copilot drafts and summarizes documents; Teams with Copilot generates meeting summaries and captures action items; and Excel with Copilot handles data analysis useful for damages calculations and billing.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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While other operators submitted detailed incident summaries to the US regulator, Tesla blacked out every narrative entirely, labeling them as confidential business information.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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Notion reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, and growth has accelerated every month since May when the company introduced AI agents to search through files or summarize meetings.—
Ellen Sheng,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Researchers used the Amazon reviews of a handful of electronic products, which were then summarized by several large language models (LLMs), including those based on Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.—
Roy Stephen Canivel,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
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“Recap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recap. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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