The word "capitalizes" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the act of capitalizing a letter or a word, such as in the sentence: "The word 'computer' capitalizes the first letter."
During states of boredom, rumour capitalizes on minor events, magnifying them into occasions for exciting collective action.
This is a special type of dating method that makes use of a microscope rather than a mass spectrometer and capitalizes on damaged zones, or tracks, created in crystals during the spontaneous fission of uranium-238.
Teaching based on cognitive theories of learning recognizes, first, the growth in quality of intellectual activity and capitalizes on this knowledge by organizing instruction to anticipate the next stage in development but does not await it; otherwise there would be no instruction; i.e., instruction should pace development but not outstrip it.
| Phillips capitalizes on the Armory buzz by presenting one of its "Under the Influence" sales of cutting-edge art (March 31).
March 16 2012 March 18 201212 From the team that dreamed up "Beauty in Motion," in 2008, we get another show that capitalizes on the charisma and the achingly beautiful lines of the Mariinsky ballerina.
Oddly, a new book capitalizes on just that nostalgia.
"Freakonomics," "Womenomics," "Obamanomics": how the publishing industry capitalizes on popular titles.
Abbado capitalizes on his prior restraint: his orchestra has energy left to burn, and it becomes an innocent, physical beast, shaking off the despair that had brought it to a standstill a few moments before.
Ultimately, the book capitalizes on way too many mass-anxiety-points to seem genuine: no one worries about anything more than their kids' futures, which we all know are doomed because of the crappy education system + the Rise of China + the Impending Fall of the American Empire + now us and our wrong ideas about parenting.
Nobody spots flaws in his own work more swiftly than Carson, or capitalizes on them more effectively.
He capitalizes on his reputation for understatement by saving huge sonorities for significant occasions; as a result, his rare musical outbursts seem not so much theatrical as visceral, as if they were blows sustained in real time.
