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capstone

[kap-stohn] / ˈkæpˌstoʊn /






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In a hallway lined with movie posters in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, Tomas Carrasco was in the middle of preparing to shoot his senior capstone film: a surreal horror comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Amicus’ “By the People” series concluded last month with a capstone conversation taped live in front of a virtual audience of Slate Plus members.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Apple ended the day at $5.005 trillion, according to Dow Jones Market Data, a capstone on the Tim Cook era, and an implicit challenge to new chief executive John Ternus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Then came a capstone class project to fix a company’s talent-acquisition woes.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

And both men regarded the letters they were writing to each other as the capstone to that final project.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The century-old concrete slabs need new capstones and weatherproofing, and the grounds need new trails, facilities and signage, Schafroth said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

Open title nearly eight years ago may well be the capstones to his career.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

And, each year, JDC capstones a year-round effort in the Quad-Cities to improve equality, education and a community that better serves everyone.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2016

Tom Rogers' excellent design not only evokes the monumentality of the cathedral, but also, through ropes, pulleys and capstones, shows it as a vertical building site.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2012

In Scandinavia, on the other hand, such dome-roofed chambers are unknown, and the construction of the chambers as a rule is megalithic, five or six monoliths supporting one or more capstones of enormous size.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various


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