capital
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Required investments for the newcomers—in new roads, homes, hospitals and machinery—can hurt overall economic productivity, according to Manning, because that capital could have been used to better equip the existing population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
With the master plan in hand, Centennial Partners is now ready to start the crucial phase of finding capital, Araujo said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
The costs had often been met by host-country taxpayers' capital budgets.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
“However, the dollar amount is not enough to move the needle in terms of gross capital flows in and out of the U.S.,” said Eric Wallerstein, chief macro strategist at Clocktower Group.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
The Austrian ultimatum was delivered to the Serb capital, Belgrade, on July 23, 1914.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing capital
Some Tricky Homonyms
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Name On: Pro Sports Team Names, Part 1
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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