giving in
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We give him credit for not giving in to our ideas but sticking with us on the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Still, short sellers are not giving in just yet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
“I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
“If we make it OK to loot a charity, the entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be destroyed,” Musk testified Tuesday, according to Reuters.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Mama’s saying “oh well” was her way of giving in.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
Apparently my friend’s mother thought my dad would eventually give in, but my father wasn’t the giving-in type.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2020
Miss Bess was in a very giving-in mood.
From Nurse Heatherdale's Story by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
Yet even in this we have no sense of failure, of "giving-in": it is for intenser life that he dies, and she shall be his queen "while his soul endures."
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
But father's his only child, and our grandmother died a good while ago, and I think she must have been a very giving-in sort of person, and that's bad training for any one.
From The Girls and I A Veracious History by Mrs. Molesworth
And his final giving-in to everything Fay wanted because Fay wanted it.
From Jan and Her Job by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
