capsule
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This material will be packed into a small capsule that will return to Earth in 2031, landing in the Woomera desert of South Australia.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year are back in Florida, reunited with their capsule and launch team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
When Werfel arrived, the Foreign Secretary was just giving the order for the three-headed wyvern to collect the capsule out of the sky and bring it gently, softly, safely down to the ground.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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
She explained that time capsules were popular in the 1980s because of the influence of Blue Peter, and recalled writing the letter after her dad found a cavity behind the stairs.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
ROMONT, Switzerland—Willy Wonka would have marveled at one of the machines at a manufacturing plant here—a contraption that injects flavors into coffee capsules via a set of whirring tubes labeled “hazelnut,” “caramel,” and “blueberry cheesecake.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Still attached, the two capsules began spinning around each other.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
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 author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence.
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
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
Freedom," he said, capsuling his own political philosophy, "has been defined as the opportunity for selfdiscipline.
From Time Magazine Archive
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