capital

Example Sentences

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It was created in a 2021 merger to give those brands the capital to take on the industry’s new challenges like electrification and autonomous driving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The main difference between those figures has to do with the treatment of spending on big-ticket items like data centers and equipment, called capital expenditures, or capex.

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

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

“Because we do. What’s the capital of Delaware?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck