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capstone

[kap-stohn] / ˈkæpˌstoʊn /






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In a hallway lined with movie posters in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, Tomas Carrasco was in the middle of preparing to shoot his senior capstone film: a surreal horror comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Amicus’ “By the People” series concluded last month with a capstone conversation taped live in front of a virtual audience of Slate Plus members.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Then came a capstone class project to fix a company’s talent-acquisition woes.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The company passed its capstone review with the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to increase its 737 MAX production to 47 jets a month, Ortberg said at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions investor conference Wednesday.

From Barron's ● May 27, 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

“You’re standing at this water feature and the magnitude … There’s 26 capstones on the water’s edge, It’s pretty overwhelming.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2022

“To see a real beach in both of those places was one of the capstones of my career,” Hartt said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

The primitive monument consisted of two huge capstones of granite supported by four or five vertically planted uprights, but one, if not two of the latter have been removed.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould


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