CAPITALIZED (ON) Synonyms: 25 Similar Words

capitalized (on)

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past tense of capitalize (on)

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to take unfair advantage of capitalized on her coworker's absence to take full credit for the joint project

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Fittingly, the hotel takes great care to disrupt its surroundings as little as possible; a geothermal well services the property’s heating and cooling, and plants that draw mosquito-eating birds are used in place of pesticides.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
The team then used in-situ polymerization to turn the mixture into a more robust polymer matrix.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026

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This notorious commercial entity, a precursor of the global corporations of today and big enough to command its own army, ruthlessly exploited foreign resources, human and material.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
That signal can be aggregated, correlated, and exploited by hostile foreign intelligence services to anticipate our movements, targets, and timing.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

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The act also has been sorely abused and used as a tool to stop projects, particularly housing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
In 2023, the Illinois attorney general released a detailed report that identified 451 Catholic priests and religious brothers who the investigation found had abused at least 1,997 children across the state’s six Catholic dioceses.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

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Plus, the brand’s expansive archive is something to be leveraged, not left aside.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
Buffered and leveraged ETFs may have a place in certain strategies, but they are rarely substitutes for a thoughtful long-term allocation.

— Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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