capstone

Example Sentences

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Her inclusion will be more than a celebration, it will be a capstone of what she’s learned from the festival.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The law is “a legal capstone meant to send a signal throughout the system” about the new orthodoxy on ethnic policy, said James Leibold, a professor at Australia’s La Trobe University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"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

Directly above her head, on the arch nearest to the bricked-in doorway, the capstone was cracked in half.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan