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By comparison, Apple’s market cap at IPO was over $1 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Alchemy allows users to issue virtual cards to AI bots with set restrictions, such as a cap on how much it can spend and on what type of products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Its chief executive Patrick Pouyanne has made clear it will abandon the cap if a special tax is put into place.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The league's latest salary cap report is revealing.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Eugene Hammond was on the porch, in a windowpane plaid suit and his cap on backward with goggles pushed up.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
While the market is expected to price in roughly quarterly rate hikes for the time being, Japan’s terminal rate is likely to be capped at or below 2%, Fujiki says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In the movie, a carnival staged a publicity-stunt fake wedding in the whale’s mouth, capped by a whale-shaped wedding cake with tiny bride and groom figurines in the whale’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Demand for dynamic-random-access memory — used to store content for AI — has been booming, and won’t be capped by demand for consumer electronics, which Sankar noted was the case in past cycles.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Like McBurnie, he has been capped at under-19 and under-21 level.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
At summer socials, their day of fun was capped off with the ultimate celebration of a butcher’s skill—the cattle-dressing contest.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Leaders are instead pursuing measures such as capping cruise ship arrivals and restricting hotel construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
She was player of the match as they beat newly promoted Birmingham City 3-1, capping off her milestone appearance in the perfect way.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
JPMorgan hosted hundreds of SpaceX employees at its headquarters in Manhattan to celebrate the stock’s listing, capping off the event with a light show featuring rocket launches.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
California law already bans a practice known as capping, in which non-attorneys directly solicit or procure clients to sign up for lawsuits with a law firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
New Guinea is mountainous and extremely rugged, rising to 16,500 feet and with glaciers capping the highest peaks, while Australia is mostly low and flat—94 percent of its area lies below 2,000 feet of elevation.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
