capitalizes

present tense third-person singular of capitalize

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The credits cost the state nearly $250 million in tax revenue this school year and subsidizes almost 40,000 students.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Essential Air Service program that subsidizes airline service to small communities across the country will also quickly run out of money.
    Josh Funk, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Soon after taking over, Vought informed Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, which funds the CFPB, that the agency would not need any more money.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In a statement, Martin — who funds some of the Miami Herald’s environmental coverage through donations to the Herald’s charitable arm — said the Seaquarium legacy will remain under his new venture, which will retain the theme park’s name.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Putin created the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives four years later, which finances exhibitions, festivals, and art that rehabilitate Moscow’s image both at home and abroad.
    Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The local surfing scene mainly finances the cost through crowdfunding campaigns.
    Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The move underwrites expanded faculty, student fellowships, global programming, and the Center for Global Futures.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Landau understands and supports not just Bruce’s vision but Bruce himself, which is how Nebraska, so bleak and bewitching, eventually emerges into the world.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • One where technology quietly supports independence, rather than defines it.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Constitution endows Congress with the authority to do just that, if only the body could be motivated to act.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Taking care of her niece endows the narrator with purpose; love overpowers her.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Capitalizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalizes. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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