cap (off)

as in to finish
to bring to a triumphant conclusion capped off the baseball season with 10-0 shutout

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Verb
  • North Irvine finished 5 for 7 with the extra attacker.
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 23 July 2025
  • Outstanding Seniors winner Braden Cole finished third in the super poll with 3,956 votes.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 23 July 2025
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  • Strange New Worlds, a new drag superstar is crowned on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Transplant wraps up its four-season run, and more.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 July 2025
  • And if that’s not enough, Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega, two architects of modern wrestling, face off once more, this time to crown a unified champion.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • For one, his situation is different; Bynum, for example, had just completed his rookie contract.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2025
  • Wilson shined with the first team, completing more than half his passes and racking up a handful of touchdowns.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • The four astronauts of Axiom Space's latest private mission have concluded their stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Ax-4's SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, named Grace, undocked from the ISS this morning (July 14), carrying the quartet on the last leg of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 July 2025
  • Shaffer and his colleagues have concluded the bird hitched back-to-back rides on a garbage truck, taking advantage of the low-effort form of transportation to reach a destination filled with tasty food scraps.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • What begins as a quiet rebellion erupts into a viral citywide strike, culminating in a daring heist.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 July 2025
  • The forward-looking entails thinking about the progress of AI on a year-by-year basis, starting now and culminating in arriving at AGI in 2040.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
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“Cap (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cap%20%28off%29. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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