How to Use capitalization in a Sentence
capitalization
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Small-capitalization firms are at their cheapest in two decades.
—Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
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But if the head is downstyle and your joke works fine without extra capitalization, leave it down.
—Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
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Large capitalization stocks are all the rage nowadays.
—Larry Light, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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The capitalization rate tells a buyer what yield a property throws off at the asking price.
—Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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Surely the capitalization choice is a clue.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
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The show did not recoup its capitalization.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
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The proof that this is an official Trump tweet comes from the random capitalization.
—Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 29 Mar. 2018
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For starters, fans pointed to the strange capitalization of the song’s title across all streaming services.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2024
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At a capitalization rate of zero, the present value of a penny a year is infinite.
—WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
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Let that be a lesson in innovation in the hope of capitalization.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
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Investors have grown choosier, and shows are struggling to hit even their minimum capitalizations.
—Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
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Tesla’s addition could also drive moves in smaller-capitalization stocks that will be sold to make room for it, traders said.
—Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
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And one of Carti’s new calling cards is the chaotic use of capitalization in song titles.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
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The stylebook’s entry for headline capitalization spells out the rules.
—WSJ, 13 May 2021
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Skipping the capitalization or leaving off a question mark doesn’t denote a lack of respect.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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The market capitalization of the local stock exchange slumped by $30 billion, more than half, in the past two years.
—Paul Wallace, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
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Small capitalization stocks are less expensive compared to large cap shares even though their earnings are forecast to grow more rapidly.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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But the important thing is to think about the capitalization of the letter V in veteran.
—Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2020
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The capitalizations were included in the text of the quotes released to journalists.
—Edith M. Lederer, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
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Small and mid-capitalization stocks—those with a market value less than roughly $5 billion—have performed badly over the past year.
—Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 22 May 2019
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All of that, every bit of it, leads up to the Seventh Inning Stretch (capitalization mine).
—Rick Wilber, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2022
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The email is distinctively Collins, with unusual capitalization, odd spellings, and even a text emoji and an lol, text-speak for laugh out loud.
—Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2019
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For example, the children in the business may want to leave cash and profits in the company for expansion or greater capitalization.
—Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
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Take Nvidia, which this past week became the first company to pierce the $4 trillion threshold for stock market capitalization.
—New York Times, 11 July 2025
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From then until the final week of 2022, the capitalization of the crypto market has grown to over a trillion dollars.
—Andie Kramer, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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Comcast did not furnish an estimate on the market-capitalization value of the two companies.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 June 2026
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The company is not expected to raise any further funds, with the next capitalization an IPO.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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New holiday music appears to be the capitalization of a hyper active fanbase by an artist and record label to bring in substantial end of the year revenue.
—Taylor Crumpton, Time, 19 Dec. 2025
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The letters, which were posted to Truth Social, were topped with a gold coat of arms and littered with random capitalizations and confusing turns of phrase.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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With an initial capitalization of €58 million ($67 million), the fund was purpose-built to address a gap in the market.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
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