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Discover LudwigThe word "recapitulations" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when you want to summarise something previously said or done, or when you are summarising a complex issue. Example sentence: At the end of the presentation, the speaker provided a recapitulation of the main points discussed.
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recapitulations
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Plural of recapitulation
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His recapitulations tend to be straightforward.
They tended toward incomplete recapitulations, wrote tender slow movements, and extended the number of movements to four allegro (lively), andante (slow), minuet, and presto (rapid).
Monn's clear development sections and complete recapitulations brought to symphonic composition a form previously used only in the sonata.
In its final bars, brief recapitulations of melodies from the previous movements are heard.
The sonata recapitulations are subtly altered, but, unlike Stamitz's, they are generally complete.
In recapitulations too Schubert shies away from harmonic simplicity and Classical expectation; his phrasing also is often irregular.
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I discovered in my 40s that he is just a recapitulation of the things that the high modernists had already done, and that he basically just ripped off Joyce.
A quarrel between their successors over a rare white hawk provoked the first battles and helped turn the Sikhs into a people of martial renown.A martyrdom or two later the last guru, Gobind Singh, founded the Khalsa, the brotherhood of "pure ones", in a Sikh recapitulation of the binding of Isaac.
However, unlike the space-station jaunts, a trip around the moon would not be a mere commercial recapitulation of a type of mission that had already been flown.Soyuz, Russia's manned spacecraft, is a tried and tested design, but it has never been to the moon.
And now a team from the University of Melbourne, in Australia, has found an even more striking example of recapitulation, which more or less proves one of the oddest ideas to emerge from evolutionary biology: that elephants are derived from mermaids.Not actual mermaids, of course.
The embryos of animals, he reckoned, experienced a process that he called "recapitulation".
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