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
  • Drinks on one of the numerous terraces in Old Montreal is blissful way to finish the day.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 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
Verb
  • 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
  • Two giant yellow subwoofer tower speakers flanked his stage to complete a visual primary color wheel.
    Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
  • For one, his situation is different; Bynum, for example, had just completed his rookie contract.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • At a two-day meeting that concludes Wednesday, the Fed is widely expected to hold its key interest rate steady despite President Donald Trump’s monthslong campaign aimed at browbeating Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues into cutting rates.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 28 July 2025
  • Metallica is slated to kick off their 2026 M72 World Tour in the late spring, which will conclude in the early summer on July 5th, 2026.
    Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 28 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 4 Aug. 2025.

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