caps

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"It's special to be so consistent to get to 50 caps. It says a lot about how much the game means to them and how much it means to play for Ireland," said Farrell.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

“Only 20 percent of the Earth’s history have we had polar ice caps. People assume they’ve always been there, and that’s not the case,” Thompson said during an interview.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

In an online chat in 2014, Bill Walsh, The Washington Post’s grammar and style guru who died in 2017, noted: “Some acronyms get so well entrenched they lose the caps. Like ‘radar’ and ‘scuba.’

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2018

"These are his words," Kimmel said. "He says he wants coverage for all, no discrimination based on preexisting conditions, lower premiums for middle-class families and no lifetime caps. "Guess what.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2017

Ist. del Suicidio caps. viii, ix.106.Cromaziano, pp. 92-93.107.Montesquieu, and many Continental writers, have noticed this, and most English writers of the eighteenth century seem to admit the charge.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole