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capstone

[kap-stohn] / ˈkæpˌstoʊn /






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"A capstone is intended to challenge students to integrate skills, function as an effective team and demonstrate their ability to solve real problems. And this problem was a doozy."

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

"The detention of Zhang Youxia was the capstone arrest of the greatest series of purges in the history of China's PLA," experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote in a note.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

The Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture series honors the late journalist and is considered the capstone of the university’s Burkle Center for International Relations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

For Presler, it meant New Jersey wouldn’t be the capstone in his new persona.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

And both men regarded the letters they were writing to each other as the capstone to that final project.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis