be capable of
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Among the company’s plans is to drive down vehicle-launch costs through the use of its Starship, a massive reusable rocket that SpaceX expects to be capable of carrying a more than 100-metric-ton payload to orbit.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Stockholm has requested that the ships be capable of carrying several Swedish-developed weapons systems on board, including those from domestic arms maker Saab and the Swedish unit of BAE Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
As Tedros explained, the Andes virus is the only hantavirus species known to be capable of “limited transmission between humans.”
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
His work offers valuable insight into how this compound works and what it may be capable of.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
A single cell must be capable of carrying the entire set of instructions to build an organism from scratch—hence genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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