Capital and Record

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Capital adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Record and capital are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Record" instead an adjective "Capital".

Record noun - A relating of events usually in the order in which they happened.

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Capital and record are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Capital" instead an adjective "Record".

Nearby Words: recorded, recording, recorder, recordist, recordable

old	old capital	old record
current	current capital	current record
original	original capital	original record
actual	actual capital	actual record
Other adjectives: entire, criminal, new, major, national, historic, highest, official, last, modern, historical.

The trope name comes from a real life episode when then-President Ronald Reagan went to Brazil and, with a grin on his face, said he was "Happy to visit the capital of Brazil, Buenos Aires" (which, for the record, is the capital of ANOTHER COUNTRY).

Source: The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires
For the record, the real capital of Brazil is Brasília, which is no hamlet itself at 2.5 million people.

Source: The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires
For example, it's on record that when the Roman legions were finally ordered back to Rome to defend the capital of the collapsing empire a lot of them quietly deserted to stay with their families.

Source: Going Native

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