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capsule

[kap-suhl, -sool, -syool] / ˈkæp səl, -sul, -sjul /


NOUN
tablet, usually medicine
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Medals, reliefs, funerary monuments, large and small figure sculptures, plus a few utilitarian objects, offer a capsule history of modeling and casting in the Tuscan city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Once undocked, the Orion crew will spend the rest of their mission carrying out additional tests of their capsule and carrying out science experiments, before returning home.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

What remains under the sea is a time capsule of ancient trade.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

After a more than 27-hour return journey, the Dragon capsule carrying Crew-12 landed safely in the Pacific Ocean, according to space agency NASA's live broadcast.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

If one of the Apollo 11 astronauts decides to go for a walk around the space capsule, he won’t hear a thing.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

It said the shortage began affecting 1mg capsules in July, with the 0.25mg strength becoming unavailable more recently.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

My medicine cabinet became a minefield of animal-derived byproducts, including gelatin capsules and pain meds with lactose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Participants in the control group were given placebo versions of the antibiotics, omega-3, and ASA, packaged in capsules that looked like the active treatments.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Enviva pioneered the business of pressing sawdust into cylindrical capsules and shipping boatloads of them to overseas power plants looking to burn an alternative to coal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Unlike early Soviet space capsules, which were automated, American spacecraft required experienced pilots at the controls in case of malfunctions.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

The professional verdict on Belli's conduct of the defense was neatly capsuled in a Texas lawyer's quip: "They found Melvin Belli guilty and gave Jack Ruby the chair."

From Time Magazine Archive

In one winter season with Uncle Don, I. V. C. Vitamin Pearls, a capsuled vitamin, increased its sales 125% with little other advertising.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the history of the U.S. can plausibly be capsuled in a litany of slogans: No taxation without representation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few Englishmen would think of scrutinizing them, but scrutinized they turn out to be almost a capsuled paraphrase of the Silver Jubilee reign.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a prompt countermove, Ford this week distributed to 150,000 employes copies of the Founder's familiar anti-union views, capsuled under the heading "Fordisms."

From Time Magazine Archive

Freedom," he said, capsuling his own political philosophy, "has been defined as the opportunity for selfdiscipline.

From Time Magazine Archive


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