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capture

[kap-cher] / ˈkæp tʃər /




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As a former athlete who balanced working eight-hour shifts with training before turning professional, she says she has "known fatigue my whole life" and believes the term fails to capture the severity of the illness.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Around the world, refineries have been running as hard as possible to capture the exceptional margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The push reflects the restaurant chain’s effort to capture more group dining occasions as inflation-weary consumers scrutinize spending.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

For Beyond the Streets founder Roger Gastman, that staying power is exactly what the exhibition is meant to capture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Instead, the government celebrated his capture as the first major break in the manhunt.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The Criterion Collection’s mammoth set of the director’s 13 features captures a master of American cinema and his singular stories of men caught up in systems bigger than themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The software also automatically captures spending data across cards to help close the books faster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Quantum entanglement captures one of the strangest differences between everyday physics and the quantum world.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The dispute captures a wider disagreement in Australia over the role of data centres.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Instead, he agreed to let me assist him in the next few captures and see how I liked it.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

But it also linked Prince to operations in January 2026 to retake Uvira, a major South Kivu city briefly captured by the M23.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The aftermath of one of Sunday's six reported attacks was captured in verified footage showing the Nicaragua-flagged tanker Petro Dolphin on fire, as filmed by the crew on a smaller boat nearby.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

His act has long captured his immigrant experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Apple faces challenges as Siri remains slower and less intelligent than rivals, and Amazon has captured two-thirds of the U.S. smart speaker market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the next picture the oak tree outside my aunt’s boardinghouse is captured, in grease pencil, at change of season, the leaves all reds and golds.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Only by lying in the dust and capturing the beetle at eye level could Whitfield show how much strength its task required.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The cyber directorate said it helped the farmer harden the camera’s security and adjust its viewing angle to stop capturing military operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Instead, “it was about capturing a feeling,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They tell clients in a note that Commonwealth Bank and ANZ were the strongest of the majors in business lending, with the former capturing 28% of flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

I don’t know how far the mic can go with capturing sound, but I hope it gets most of my ranting.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali


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