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What does recapitulate mean?

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Verb
  1. To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  2. (biology) During an individual's development, to pass through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
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To recapitulate, new schools display a 12.4 per cent decrease in repetitions, and an overall reduction of 1.2 per cent in drop-outs.
The story of the Union has been told on several occasions and there is no need to recapitulate it.
They are not sincere, he says, and he does not even bother to recapitulate their arguments or try to refute them.
Hall believed that children recapitulate stages of human evolution as they grow from infants to adults.
To recapitulate what I said earlier on this bill, one respects the intention and the purpose behind it.
Allow me to recapitulate the principles which guide us and which are non-negotiable.

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