capitalize

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Initially, we were capitalized with a loan of $500,000 from a single angel investor.

It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I'm sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Cowan, Swain's high-tech clients frequently needed capitalization, and Gennaro helped them find the money.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

There were some old curmudgeons on the faculty—and some young fuddy-duddies, too—who objected to Owen's style; and I don't mean that they objected only to his outrageous capitalization.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

When did you start wanting this so badly? he wondered, watching Claude walk alongside the stranger, explaining what they did as something to be replicated, capitalized, multiplied.  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Across the way was the ladies' room, denoted by small, uncapitalized letters of gold that read FEMMES.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

As with wooden stakes, sunlight, and Italian food, vampires have a natural aversion to both punctuation and capitalization.†  (source) Heather Brewer, Tenth Grade Bleeds, 2009

He was sorry for Dick Turner, whom he knew to be unhappy; but even this tragedy seemed to him romantic; he saw it, impersonally, as a symptom of the growing capitalization of farming all over the world, of the way small farmers would inevitably be swallowed by the big ones.†  (source) Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 1950

I'm a big believer in random capitalization.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

I recognized the capitalization immediately.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

"Interesting capitalization," I said.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

The town wants to capitalize on the low-cost electricity provided by the dam.

Capitalizing on his sudden popularity, Louie ran for class president and won, borrowing the speech that Pete had used to win his class presidency at Compton.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

His was one of those well-groomed reputations that get the most out of everything; any unusual holiday acquires the character of an exploration, and though the explorer takes care to do nothing really original, the public does not know this, and he capitalizes the full value of a hasty impression.  (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

Prison growth and the resulting "prison-industrial complex"—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

Albus asked his parents immediately, capitalizing on the momentary absence of his brother.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

Then he capitalized on the midday sun to maximize recharging.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

It would be a little premature, since there was nothing guaranteed for the girls, but he could capitalize on the general excitement of the day.†  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

The wealthier shop owners took advantage of the long bleak months to disappear to holiday homes abroad, while the more determined hosted Christmas events, capitalizing on occasional carol concerts on the grounds, or festive craft fairs.†  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

She knew the cant of the Missionaria Protectiva, knew how to adapt the techniques of legend and fear and hope to her emergency needs, but she sensed wild changes here ....as though someone had been in among these Fremen and capitalized on the Missionaria Protectiva's imprint.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

Gladstone explained to me how the Hegemony planned to capitalize on that obsession.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

I didn't feel sorry for her, even though I did feel sorry for the people who would be blamed for this nightmare: the Student Council for their dangerously unstable backdrop, Dickey Wix for capitalizing on the misfortune of a fat teenage cheerleader in her underwear, and Red Sweet for his unprofessional and potentially life-threatening wiring of the lighting in the Jackson High gym.†  (source) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

And as long as I moved fast enough, I should be able to capitalize on it.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

Indeed, the mix of private and public business beneath the roof of the Hotel de Valentinois was considerable, with Bancroft, the Comte de Chaumont, and possibly even Franklin, all capitalizing on secret French support for the American war and a steady flow of inside information.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

I suddenly wanted Davis badly enough that I no longer cared why I wanted him, whether what wanted him was capitalized or lowercase.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

I have to restrain myself from capitalizing the last two words.  (source) Alice Sebold, Lucky, 1999

For here was Mishka's project in a nutshell: a compendium of quotations from seminal texts arranged in chronological order, but in each of which the word bread had been capitalized and printed in bold.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

First, "kinder" should have been capitalized.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

Okay, why does he capitalize LOSE and OVER?†  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

Nothing was capitalized, and there were no punctuation marks.†  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, 1993

The term comes from the word capitalize and is slang that means to get the better of another person.†  (source) Ben Carson, Gifted Hands, 1990

And the words the and order are capitalized.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

If you haven't spent all your energy, you'll be able to capitalize when opportunities arise.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom, 2012

In Finch's text, "Private" is capitalized.†  (source) Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places, 2016

I learned that the bar had been built in 1933, to celebrate and capitalize upon the repeal of Prohibition, and its spacious, even somewhat cavernous dimensions were originally meant to encompass a dance floor.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

It was full of words ending in e's, s's that looked like f's, capitalized nouns, y's where i's should've been.†  (source) Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 1966

He was out of the house, wandering through the streets, blind, deaf, senseless, immersed in that boiling mass of latent energy...like a ship with sails caught in the nexus of a typhoon, fighting to convert a whirlpool of wind into the motive power that would lead to safety...S. Powell fought to absorb that fearful torrent, to Capitalize that latent energy, to Cathectize and direct it toward the Demolition of Reich before it was too late, too late, too late, too late, too late...—— 16 ABOLISH THE LABYRINTH.†  (source) Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man, 1953