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[kap-cher] / ˈkæp tʃər /




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Dan Flax, senior research analyst at Neuberger Berman, thinks that the search business can adapt to capture value from AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

After each chance capture the fish were preserved, then largely forgotten.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Police investigating ongoing home burglaries in the still-rebuilding Palisades have been able to identify suspects, she said, in part because license plate readers frequently capture the getaway vehicles used by burglars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The British company, Rivan Industries, is working on a system to split hydrogen from water and capture carbon dioxide directly from the air, before combining them to make methane, a cleaner substitute for natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The same man who had sent a bogatyr to capture Håkon, and whose war had taken Papa from her.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

The video captures the brakes being applied and the car veering left to attempt to swerve around the pedestrian, CHP said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The film, newly restored from Greaves’ father William’s original offering, captures a staggering array of luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance reflecting on the period during a four-hour cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in 1972.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Nvidia’s revenue could still grow in an expanding market while it captures a smaller share of a customer’s budget or accepts lower margins to secure business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

An online audience can be as fickle as it is faithful, and what captures the most clicks doesn’t also always edify the human soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

He captures snowflakes, tadpoles, hibernating frogs; he coaxes bread from bakers with none to sell; he regularly appears in the kitchen with fresh milk for the babies.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

To count them, reporters used early- and pre-war high-resolution images captured by California-based Planet Labs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

As a result, their cases are never captured in national health statistics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

After a June 2025 raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet. He was just sitting in that minivan.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The footage shown to jurors at Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday also captured passengers barricading themselves inside using bicycles.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

He has built fifty temples, captured more than three hundred cities, and created the largest empire Egypt has ever known.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

A parade of short-priced winners opened the Breeders’ Cup on Friday, with the afternoon’s heaviest favorite capturing the headline race as Hughes won the $2 million Juvenile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The PMIs are closely watched as forward-looking indicators of economic performance, capturing sentiment among businesses and demand trends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It also cemented its dominance in other segments, capturing 50% of the wireless broadband market and more than 40% of fixed broadband.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Kiwanuka is a sonic artificer of the highest level, capturing lofty hope and languid melancholia in liquid waves that crash and surge around his voice.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Nyame had tasked Anansi with capturing one of the Mmoatia to satisfy his price for the Story Box.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia


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