capacity
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Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain all spent heavily on expanding capacity in the run up to this year’s conflict, only to find themselves in Iran’s sights too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"We need 10 GW of installed nuclear power generation capacity by the year 2040."
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
"It was literally just a bunch of numbers and text, so it kind of existed but not in this capacity," Allstar says.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Musk said that the shift was intended to increase capacity for Tesla’s Cybercab production, the company’s two-passenger robotaxi.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
I had the capacity to imagine such language, but neither Call nor I had ever really heard it spoken.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Europe has realised its security depends on space, and it must "strengthen its satellite capacities, urgently," a spokesperson for the European Commission told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Providers also failed to complete assessments of each beneficiary’s functional capacities before billing Medicaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Free from drugs and violence, and with treatment for mental illness, they discover spirituality and their creative capacities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Housing Works has been serving homeless and low-income New Yorkers, particularly people living with HIV, in a variety of capacities for years.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
Most did okay, but there was one woman whose capacities blew Dr. Strayer away.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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