giving in
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“They’re so connected, and it’s so fun to be a part of it and they’re always very gracious and giving in their performance too,” Rosenberg said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The report found that corporate foundation grants to veteran-related programs fell from about 1% of annual giving in 2014 to around 0.3% in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The foundation, and about 45 others so far, have signed a pledge to increase their giving in response to government funding cuts.
From Barron's ● May 12, 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
Since the other boy always did bring it up when a question of precedence arose, he had got into the habit of giving in at once before it could be mentioned.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
“I am not of a giving-in kind,” replied the young man earnestly.
From Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
