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capstone

[kap-stohn] / ˈkæpˌstoʊn /






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The eight-week MIT program costs $2,847 and includes a capstone project where students create an actionable AI strategy for their company.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The company passed its capstone review with the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to increase its 737 MAX production to 47 jets a month, Ortberg said at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions investor conference Wednesday.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

The law is “a legal capstone meant to send a signal throughout the system” about the new orthodoxy on ethnic policy, said James Leibold, a professor at Australia’s La Trobe University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

"A capstone is intended to challenge students to integrate skills, function as an effective team and demonstrate their ability to solve real problems. And this problem was a doozy."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

The capstone was about to crumble, and when that happened, assuming she could time it correctly...

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

“You’re standing at this water feature and the magnitude … There’s 26 capstones on the water’s edge, It’s pretty overwhelming.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2022

“To see a real beach in both of those places was one of the capstones of my career,” Hartt said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

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

Was not the work of those who first evened the ground and laid the foundation-stones as important as of those who laid the capstones at last?

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various




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