capstone
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That selection, spread over the final three of the exhibition’s 10 galleries, is both the retrospective’s capstone and highlight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Then came a capstone class project to fix a company’s talent-acquisition woes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 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
She could reach the capstone easily, but she’d have to make her one strike count.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
In our eagerness to treat Oscar victories as career capstones, do we pay too little attention to the opportunities that are supposed to come afterward, yet often don’t?
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Impressive granite capstones salvaged from a tumbling wall on the property now top stately benches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
And, each year, JDC capstones a year-round effort in the Quad-Cities to improve equality, education and a community that better serves everyone.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2016
Tom Rogers' excellent design not only evokes the monumentality of the cathedral, but also, through ropes, pulleys and capstones, shows it as a vertical building site.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2012
By our wits we can lift blocks weighing six hundred men, and set them as the capstones of our pyramids.
From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
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