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- verb Present participle of
capture .
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Examples
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"Gemuetlichkeit" - a word capturing Bavaria's special coziness and fondness for savouring the moment.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Fiona Govan 2011
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The government will need assistance in capturing and transferring their knowledge and experience to the next generations of leaders.
Women Grow Business » Just Like That, the Market Shifted and So Did We 2009
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Did anyone propose that we forego pursuit of Rudolph by armed law enforcement personnel, prepared to exercise force in capturing him, including deadly force if necessary, while we negotiated?
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The introduction, after talking about how Pogue became a Twitter convert, hints at some of the technical problems they faced in capturing all the responses, creating tracking databases, and then hunting down contact information for the winners.
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The American president succeeded in capturing the imagination of the Arabic herd (sic) including those Arab idiotic (sic) intellectuals, and then waved his hands mimicking our kings and titan despots in their distinct moments of hypocrisy; and the audience applauded warmly ending the first chapter of a comedy […]
Global Voices in English » Moroccans Love/Hate Affair with Obama 2009
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The movie was dead-on in capturing that time period.
Director finds out about “Adventureland” mistake via Twitter » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Conway succeeded in capturing support from African Americans and younger voters, but fell short of clinching victory.
Exit poll: Paul's victory in Kentucky Kyle Dropp 2010
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Pennycook invests enormous amount of time and energy in capturing precisely these kinds of changing trends in localities all over the world in how they are experienced and understood by those in that local environment.
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The Cove by Louie Psihoyo an underwater adventure about dolphin capturing in Japan.
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Are you saying that capturing is impossible, so all gesturing is futile?
Gratuitous 2010
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