cap
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Put simply, SCR is designed to cap a club's total spending on its playing squad as a direct percentage of its overall revenue.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The iPhone maker lost $357.8 billion in market capitalization, its largest one-day market cap decline on record and the third-largest of any U.S. company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Draped in a British flag, he stopped to put on a Dolphins cap and do his tea-sipping celebration for the camera.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
As plainclothes detective Tony Baretta, he swaggered through four gritty seasons in muscle shirts and a newsboy cap, with a snappy street patter and a pet cockatoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
He adjusts his cap and takes my hand.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Growth in the September quarter is being capped because Apple can’t fulfill demand fast enough.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
While demand for next-generation data centers remains hot, executives signaled that output is capped by current manufacturing limits as it rushes to build out new capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
However, the charge is capped at five nights, so those booking for the whole month of August, for example, will not face a 5% cost on every night of their stay.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This means officials expect that tariffs on EU goods will generally be capped at 15 percent, as outlined in the deal.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
I moved through cam- phorweed and wild azalea, stepping over fire-ant mounds and swinging the smoker while he lifted the lids off the hives and peered inside looking for capped frames.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
This month, SK hynix soared 13 percent on its first day of trading on Wall Street, capping one of the world's biggest ever stock sales.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The surge made it the most valuable company listed in mainland China, capping the rise of an upstart whose products are sought by Apple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Preston Bus says it cannot confirm whether it will join a new government scheme capping single fares at £2 from January because it has not been told how operators will be reimbursed.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
A proposal under the Obama administration suggested capping total tax-advantaged retirement balances to a little more than $3 million.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
She was all in white, with an elegantly beaded headdress capping her hair.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
