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capacity

[kuh-pas-i-tee] / kəˈpæs ɪ ti /




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Liverpool's city council offers grants of up to £3,000 to venues with a capacity of less than 30.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Yet, unlike any other country, Saudi Arabia has spare capacity, and that means the ability to add 2 million barrels or more to the market “rather quickly,” Yawger said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

This brings the company’s total active, open-ended buyback capacity to roughly $118 billion, making it one of the largest in corporate history.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

The companies said they will aggregate their residential networks into a collective resource that could deliver more than 16,000 megawatts of flexible capacity to the grid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

“That’s the plan? Get out of Davey? Bigger town, larger capacity for tolerance?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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