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were capturing
verb
To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
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We were capturing the human condition, the way people behaved.
Also, he said, the cocaine groups were capturing African territory, which was bad for everybody.
By dawn, news helicopters were capturing live footage of the disaster.
They were capturing and punishing people, so the people stopped growing opium.
Photographers like Martha Cooper and Henry Chalphant were capturing the images in the 1980's.
Intelligence agents were capturing his keystrokes as he logged on to his company network.
But lately, Busse has decided to branch out, as it were, capturing other subjects, in their own homes.
The guerrillas were capturing more and more weapons, which enabled them to launch more and bigger attacks.
"New Topographics" put a name to the photographers who were capturing the built environment in a dispassionate and impersonal way.
The fact that they were capturing carbon, and that some of it was staying above ground and some of it was going underground was barely appreciated.
Because we were capturing the whole dynamic range of the Sun, once it dropped away, we'd need a more sensitive camera set-up for night".
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