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capstone

[kap-stohn] / ˈkæpˌstoʊn /






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Her inclusion will be more than a celebration, it will be a capstone of what she’s learned from the festival.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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 detention of Zhang Youxia was the capstone arrest of the greatest series of purges in the history of China's PLA," experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote in a note.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

It might well have served as a worthy capstone to Mr. Winslow’s milestone-filled career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

For this, he needed equipment to manage intense radioactivities and, as a capstone, a nuclear reactor—the one nuclear technology that had eluded Lawrence’s grasp.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik