as in summary
a short statement of the main points
will begin his presentation with a recapitulation of the research done on the disease up to this point
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Recent Examples of recapitulation
In this sense, the salt flats and their salty lakes are at once a living record and an ongoing recapitulation of billions of years of planetary history.
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Literary Hub,
3 Oct. 2025
The Word for World Is Forest envisions space exploration as a recapitulation of earlier colonial conflicts.
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Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.
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Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
As the Barber’s first movement rounds the corner into the recapitulation section, the soloist has a few precious seconds to breathe as the orchestra sings out the main tune.
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Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Sep. 2024
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Literary Hub,
3 Oct. 2025
The Word for World Is Forest envisions space exploration as a recapitulation of earlier colonial conflicts.
—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.
—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
As the Barber’s first movement rounds the corner into the recapitulation section, the soloist has a few precious seconds to breathe as the orchestra sings out the main tune.
—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recapitulation
summary
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Although the court livestreams the audio of oral arguments, that’s not the case for the summaries the justices give of their opinions.
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The three liberal justices dissented as to the Equal Protection Clause, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a summary of her dissent from the bench.
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“Recapitulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recapitulation. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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