capsule
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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
What remains under the sea is a time capsule of ancient trade.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
"The shipwreck is a time capsule at the bottom of the sea," said Prof Hakan Öniz, from Akdeniz University in Turkey, who led the Mediterranean Archaeology Association expedition.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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
Easing out of the capsule, she began swimming immediately.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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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
Until now, all Starship flights have been suborbital, meaning the capsules were high enough to reach space, but did not travel fast enough or long enough to complete a loop around the Earth.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Europe has in recent years sought greater independence in space but has never sent a manned mission, instead relying on the rockets and capsules of Russia and the United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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
Once I’m seated, he breaks the capsules in the ice packs and shakes them, hands them to me.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place in the '60s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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The author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Indeed, the history of the U.S. can plausibly be capsuled in a litany of slogans: No taxation without representation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Freedom," he said, capsuling his own political philosophy, "has been defined as the opportunity for selfdiscipline.
From Time Magazine Archive
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