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capsule

[kap-suhl, -sool, -syool] / ˈkæp səl, -sul, -sjul /


NOUN
tablet, usually medicine
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Medals, reliefs, funerary monuments, large and small figure sculptures, plus a few utilitarian objects, offer a capsule history of modeling and casting in the Tuscan city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The capsule carrying material from Phobos is not expected to return to Earth until 2031.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Shopping for creatine: Creatine is available in powder, capsule, liquid and even energy bar form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

This material will be packed into a small capsule that will return to Earth in 2031, landing in the Woomera desert of South Australia.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“It was like a time capsule within a time capsule,” says archaeologist Christopher Dobbs.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The nutrition supplement market is a big business, with hundreds of brightly coloured recovery drinks and capsules promising reduced soreness and faster recovery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

She explained that time capsules were popular in the 1980s because of the influence of Blue Peter, and recalled writing the letter after her dad found a cavity behind the stairs.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Enviva pioneered the business of pressing sawdust into cylindrical capsules and shipping boatloads of them to overseas power plants looking to burn an alternative to coal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Makers of corks, capsules and bottles have been hit because overall U.S. wine volume has continued to decline, McMillan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

That evening, when Mrs. Muokelu brought the antibiotic capsules wrapped in newspaper, Olanna asked her to come inside and showed her a photo of Kainene, sitting by the pool with a cigarette between her lips.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place in the '60s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the history of the U.S. can plausibly be capsuled in a litany of slogans: No taxation without representation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few Englishmen would think of scrutinizing them, but scrutinized they turn out to be almost a capsuled paraphrase of the Silver Jubilee reign.

From Time Magazine Archive

In one winter season with Uncle Don, I. V. C. Vitamin Pearls, a capsuled vitamin, increased its sales 125% with little other advertising.

From Time Magazine Archive

Freedom," he said, capsuling his own political philosophy, "has been defined as the opportunity for selfdiscipline.

From Time Magazine Archive


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