caps

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"It's special to be so consistent to get to 50 caps. It says a lot about how much the game means to them and how much it means to play for Ireland," said Farrell.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

“Only 20 percent of the Earth’s history have we had polar ice caps. People assume they’ve always been there, and that’s not the case,” Thompson said during an interview.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

“I love the idea that America is almost boiled down to minor league baseball caps. It’s a fascinating concept.”

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2021

In an online chat in 2014, Bill Walsh, The Washington Post’s grammar and style guru who died in 2017, noted: “Some acronyms get so well entrenched they lose the caps. Like ‘radar’ and ‘scuba.’

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2018

Ist. del Suicidio caps. viii, ix.106.Cromaziano, pp. 92-93.107.Montesquieu, and many Continental writers, have noticed this, and most English writers of the eighteenth century seem to admit the charge.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole