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capstone

[kap-stohn] / ˈkæpˌstoʊn /






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That selection, spread over the final three of the exhibition’s 10 galleries, is both the retrospective’s capstone and highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Her inclusion will be more than a celebration, it will be a capstone of what she’s learned from the festival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

"A capstone is intended to challenge students to integrate skills, function as an effective team and demonstrate their ability to solve real problems. And this problem was a doozy."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

The capstone of the Jefferson-Madison collaboration occurred at this volatile political moment—namely, their joint authorship of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“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

Open title nearly eight years ago may well be the capstones to his career.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

And, each year, JDC capstones a year-round effort in the Quad-Cities to improve equality, education and a community that better serves everyone.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2016

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

Was not the work of those who first evened the ground and laid the foundation-stones as important as of those who laid the capstones at last?

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various


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