Thesaurus results for CAPITALS

capitals

noun

plural of capital

as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest during the 1980s Silicon Valley became the capital of the computer industry

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Recent Examples of capitals Riyadh was transformed into global locations including Mumbai, Shanghai, and other major international capitals. —

Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 June 2026 Bodrum and Göcek have emerged as the country’s answer to the Mediterranean’s luxury capitals, complete with chic beach clubs, designer outposts, sophisticated marinas and an increasingly ambitious restaurant scene. —

Katia Damborsky, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia. —

Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026 Location can be one of the biggest cost drivers in Europe, especially where demand is consistently high, from major capitals to coastal resort towns. —

Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2026 Almost nobody in the two capitals is attempting to disaggregate some of these issues and thereby make tensions more manageable. —

Literary Hub, 27 May 2026 Travelers who learn a foreign language abroad also frequently report forming lasting friendships with locals, an outcome that’s harder to come by on a checklist tour of major capitals. —

Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026 Philadelphia and the other colonial capitals supported competing publications, exposing citizens to sharply different political arguments. —

Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 26 May 2026 The world’s first boardwalk opened here in 1870, and by the early 20th century, Atlantic City had become one of America’s great leisure capitals, home to grand seaside hotels, beauty pageants, and supper clubs, frequented by legendary performers like Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, and The Beatles. —

Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026

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Leo's visit signals a return of papal attention to Europe's Christian roots after Pope Francis largely stayed away from the traditional centers of Christianity in favor of smaller Catholic communities farther away.

— CBS News, CBS News, 6 June 2026
Leo's visit signals a return of papal attention to Europe’s Christian roots after Pope Francis largely stayed away from the traditional centers of Christianity in favor of smaller Catholic communities farther away.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 June 2026