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capsule

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


NOUN
tablet, usually medicine
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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

On September 23, 2023, a capsule carrying approximately 120 grams of asteroid material landed in the Utah desert.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Shopping for creatine: Creatine is available in powder, capsule, liquid and even energy bar form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

It’s shaped like a capsule and made of 8-inch-thick steel.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

It said the shortage began affecting 1mg capsules in July, with the 0.25mg strength becoming unavailable more recently.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

These galaxies have undergone relatively little chemical evolution, making them valuable cosmic "time capsules" that preserve clues about the Universe's early composition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

It was a network of vaulted hallways, each lined with coffin-shaped sleeping capsules, row after row of them, stacked to the ceiling, ten high.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Indeed, the history of the U.S. can plausibly be capsuled in a litany of slogans: No taxation without representation.

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

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

In a prompt countermove, Ford this week distributed to 150,000 employes copies of the Founder's familiar anti-union views, capsuled under the heading "Fordisms."

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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