capital

Example Sentences

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They travel by bus to the healer's home on the outskirts of the capital.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

South Sudan has started to ration electricity in its capital, Juba, while Zimbabwe is increasing the ethanol content in its petrol.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

But there’s a lot more to Meta than that product, including aggressive capital spending to keep up in the AI race and the loss of two landmark social-media addiction trials last month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The $160 billion in Microsoft capital expenditures in the past six quarters couldn’t satisfy all internal and external computing demand at the same time.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Wall Street’s essential function was to allocate capital: to decide who should get it and who should not.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis