capstone
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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
"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 Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture series honors the late journalist and is considered the capstone of the university’s Burkle Center for International Relations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Directly above her head, on the arch nearest to the bricked-in doorway, the capstone was cracked in half.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
Impressive granite capstones salvaged from a tumbling wall on the property now top stately benches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 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
In Scandinavia, on the other hand, such dome-roofed chambers are unknown, and the construction of the chambers as a rule is megalithic, five or six monoliths supporting one or more capstones of enormous size.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various