capital
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Oil sands can take years to develop and require hefty upfront capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Transaction accounts — these are the sorts of checking accounts Slok is talking about — come to $8.3 trillion of the roughly $26 trillion in bank liabilities and capital.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Abbott spent a substantial amount of his political capital on that vouchers bill.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Despite trying to deny state involvement in a large funeral gathering for Mladic in the Serbian capital last month, several of his ministers attended, drawing sharp criticism from Brussels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
It had $40 in bets on its subprime mortgage bonds for every dollar of capital it held against those bets.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing capital
Some Tricky Homonyms
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Name On: Pro Sports Team Names, Part 1
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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