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Not all of that water is capturable, and some is needed for environmental purposes, recreation and other uses, but the sheer volume indicates that more could be done, the researchers said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2024

What might be the possibilities for a future of shared viewing—shared in a sense expansive enough to include virtual communities—that allows for some common experience not capturable by algorithmic sorting?

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018

"Every red-blooded American man felt obliged to go out and catch sharks, which were readily capturable," said the University of Florida's Burgess, noting that they can be caught offshore and from small boats.

From Reuters • May 28, 2016

In such a case, he declares, by the doctrine of continuous voyages, "the goods and the knowingly guilty ship are capturable during that voyage."

From Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War by Campbell, Robert Granville

So planned Barry Briscoe, the romantic, about whose head the vision splendid always hovered, a realisable, capturable thing.

From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame