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capsule

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


NOUN
tablet, usually medicine
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When travelers enter Dulles International Airport, they pass through a time capsule from the Space Age.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Along Front Street, Forestville’s tiny commercial core, you could get a corn dog for $3.30 at Carr’s Drive-Inn, which looks like a time capsule from 1979.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The book offers capsule biographies of the game’s young stars.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

They didn’t want their elfin guest to be knocked around too much when the capsule landed.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

Its factories can supply everything from frozen meat and candy to lipstick, medicine capsules and sports hijabs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Complete coverage of The Times’ All-Star baseball and softball teams, from the players and coaches of the year to capsules on each player and the final 2026 rankings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

Instead of viewing them solely as stone replicas of ancient bones, researchers are beginning to see some fossils as possible molecular time capsules that still preserve traces of prehistoric biology millions of years later.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

I emptied their capsules into a saucepan and rinsed out the odor of wheat germ with water from the tap.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Motor Chassis Manufacturer" and builds no bodies whatever, seemed the philosophy of U. S. automotive engineers as capsuled by President Stout: "The car must look right above all things.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The reasons why are neatly capsuled in Shirley's cinefantasy with Mitchum, described as "one of those Hollywood movies all about love and what'11-she-wear-next?"

From Time Magazine Archive

The author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive




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