capital
Example Sentences
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Hadi's body, which was brought to the capital on Friday, was buried at the central mosque of Dhaka University.
From Barron's
"It was just an ordinary day," he tells me, as shoppers were enjoying the rare sunshine in the capital.
From BBC
Economists hope some of this capital will go into research and development, juicing Germany’s productivity growth and seeding startups and new exports—just as U.S. government money helped to sow the seeds of Silicon Valley.
In the past few years though, high-speed rail has expanded in all directions from Kunming, Yunnan’s capital.
The unlikely diplomat trying to end Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945 speaks in golfing metaphors and long asides about the nature of capital markets.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.