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[kap-cher] / ˈkæp tʃər /




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Forestson lowered himself onto the mud to capture this common water lizard against the city skyline.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Developers have been racing to design agentic apps that will capture users' attention, time and wallets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

For Beyond the Streets founder Roger Gastman, that staying power is exactly what the exhibition is meant to capture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Motion capture cameras recorded their movements in detail, allowing the researchers to analyze how different walking styles affected the knee.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

I capture the soft whistle of Mars’s wind.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

She is filming the scene in a busy Baghdad street on her phone, and the camera captures him resisting her attempts to open the door as she confronts him.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Criterion Collection’s mammoth set of the director’s 13 features captures a master of American cinema and his singular stories of men caught up in systems bigger than themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This agreement suggests that the framework captures important aspects of how amyloid-beta proteins aggregate under the conditions studied.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Kevin Sun I.” captures the flow of his band in performance yet achieves its most memorable aspects through carefully wrought post-production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Our interest arises no doubt from the remnant of a primitive belief that an image captures not merely the likeness but also the soul of a sitter.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Apple faces challenges as Siri remains slower and less intelligent than rivals, and Amazon has captured two-thirds of the U.S. smart speaker market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

In September, they routed pro-government fighters and captured Yemen’s Red Sea coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Its incomplete skeleton was found in the bank of the Nyamasango River close to Musango Island, as captured in the animal’s scientific name.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

A spokesperson for NHS England also confirmed that currently there was no single national dataset that specifically captured all cases of chronic UTI as a distinct clinical diagnosis.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

He told stories of being captured as a boy and brought to America.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

As Cliffe and Stuart spoke, a member of their team circled with a large camera, capturing video footage for future posts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The cyber directorate said it helped the farmer harden the camera’s security and adjust its viewing angle to stop capturing military operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The moment when the couple’s infant child is taken from them by the authorities is devastating, each of them capturing a sense of helpless isolation from themselves, their community and each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

In one of several photographs capturing the remarkable informality between them, Chivayo lounges, almost lying, on a sofa beside Mnangagwa, apparently entirely at ease in the president's company.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

But, somehow, successfully capturing the power-up has glitched me into the tournament.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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