capital

Example Sentences

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It was created in a 2021 merger to give those brands the capital to take on the industry’s new challenges like electrification and autonomous driving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

An AFP journalist heard two loud explosions in the capital within half an hour early Saturday and saw smoke billowing from one of them.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

This positions it to benefit from Zuckerberg’s ambitious vision for AI without the 12-figure capital bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Now in her 80s, Lami Ezekiel remembers construction crews arriving in her ancestral home in Maitama, as it was destroyed to build Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Richmond had become Virginia’s capital, but in 1781, it was little more than a country village with dirt streets, only two brick buildings, and modest wooden houses.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis