as in to fund
to provide money for
several investors agreed to capitalize the new venture
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Recent Examples of capitalize
Boston finally got a real opportunity in the sixth after Caleb Durbin hit a lead off double, but the Red Sox once again weren’t able to capitalize.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
Gordon capitalized with an open dunk to punctuate his 17-point, eight-rebound game.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
Pitching gave us a shot at the beginning, and then hit some balls hard as a group but couldn’t capitalize.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
The home team capitalized around the 12-minute mark.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
Gordon capitalized with an open dunk to punctuate his 17-point, eight-rebound game.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
Pitching gave us a shot at the beginning, and then hit some balls hard as a group but couldn’t capitalize.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
The home team capitalized around the 12-minute mark.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalize
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Pay raises for 42,000 employees The budget will also fund controversial pay raises for state employees.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2026
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The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), which investigates complaints about the NHS, determined that a local health body was denying women, but not men, funding for sterilization.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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Families are willing to go into debt to finance a surgery if doing so means saving a beloved dog’s life.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Prosecutors have accused him of financing the plot.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
1 May 2026
Verb
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Urso argued that incorporated areas have always helped subsidize the roads and services of unincorporated areas.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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Our health care system is quite complicated, and so what the beginning of that transition looks like for me is that everyone’s health insurance will be subsidized by 50% by the state.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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“Capitalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalize. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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