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capacity

[kuh-pas-i-tee] / kəˈpæs ɪ ti /




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Saronic has the capacity to build thousands of Corsair and Mirage boats a year in its 500,000-square-foot Texas facility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“Headline bigger than capacity on offer,” wrote Bernstein analyst David Veron on Wednesday, adding the “service offering won’t be comparable.”

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

"Hillary Dawa had experience working in this capacity in previous years, but he was late in his career."

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The news releases don’t mention if there is a maximum capacity for the events.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

I doubt that I am overstating the case here: our capacity to understand and manipulate human genomes alters our conception of what it means to be “human.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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