capitalize on something

Examples of capitalizing

capitalizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Such writers might, of course, simply be capitalizing on the convenience and instantaneousness of e-mails.
Abree did not want to upset the balance of his newspaper by capitalizing upon actual increases in deviancy in these years.
The second issue is whether there is a considerable potential for capitalizing on chance in making configural judgments at the individual level.
The survivors were seen as a useful political tool to obtain immediate immigration rights by capitalizing on international sympathy, and edging closer to statehood.
They maintained these enclaves for one-half century by capitalizing on their influence in the federal government and the national party.
Further, unlike grammar-translation methods, there was no capitalizing on learner's metalinguistic abilities or explicit instruction.
It involves highlighting certain features of input that might go unnoticed under normal circumstances by typographically manipulating them through boldfacing, italicizing, underlining, or capitalizing.
Consequently, resolution of a fractious stool dispute was made secondary to implementing an indirect rule experiment and capitalizing on burgeoning cocoa production.
They sought to reinject the project into the policy process by capitalizing on the diverse opportunities to counsel the king.
By capitalizing on this we can thus evaluate the degradation in performance of the two parsers along the increase of complexity of the domain.
This question is explored in a body of work that analyzes memory for real life trauma by capitalizing on naturally occurring events.
The analogy is that each block is a three-dimensional book capitalizing on interactive learning and providing easy application methods.
Capitalizing on this fact, it is plausible to argue that progressivity is a construction-based property in all cases.
In the next stage of capitalizing on the value of errorless learning, researchers can design randomized control studies of errorless learning in more naturalistic work environments.
Such lexically supported learning has the advantage of capitalizing on knowledge structures (which may be semantic, conceptual, or phonological in form) that have already been constructed.
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