recapitulated

past tense of recapitulate
as in summarized
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) the professor told the students that their papers should not recapitulate the whole plot but should rather discuss in detail one particular incident they thought was interesting

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Recent Examples of recapitulated Literacy changed human consciousness, a transformation that is recapitulated with each child who learns to read and write. — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026 There is a main theme , recapitulated, echoed , enhanced by its variations, many movements, intrigue, in the melodies. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
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  • That’s how one top Netflix insider summarized another bloody Monday at the streamer, which saw Dan Lin ousted as the company’s head of film.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The note summarized a cybercrime campaign in which three open-source AI agents allegedly worked together to breach at least 27 organizations and take more than 600,000 credit card records from two of them.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
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  • The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has outlined a marginal (Level 1 out of 5) risk in an area that includes Phoenix and Tucson.
    — Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Musk previously outlined plans to send Tesla’s Optimus robots to the planet aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Recapitulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recapitulated. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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