capital

Example Sentences

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Venture capital money is abundant, and every minute feels precious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The planning for the new capital right in the centre of the country began a decade earlier.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Both Lumentum and Coherent have benefitted from an acceleration of hyperscaler capital spending that has lifted their shares nearly 1,043% and 271.6%, respectively, over the past 12 months.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Now in her 80s, Lami Ezekiel remembers construction crews arriving in her ancestral home in Maitama, as it was destroyed to build Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Delaware wasn’t the capital of anything except tax-free shopping.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly