surrender
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The law also expressly protects the parental rights of the intended parents by requiring the surrogate to surrender the child to them immediately upon birth.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
I understood that accepting Parkinson’s didn’t mean I had to surrender to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Middlebrough was permitted to first go to Liverpool and then briefly stay in West Yorkshire and was ordered to surrender to HMP Wandsworth in south London on 24 October.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
They were also able to speak directly to rival fighters on the ground, urging them to surrender, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
On April 10, Abraham Lincoln appeared at a second-floor window of the Executive Mansion, as the White House was known then, to greet a crowd of citizens celebrating General Lee’s surrender.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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District Judge Margaret Garnett released Van Dyke while he awaits trial, on conditions including that he surrenders his passport and any firearms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Don’t miss: Tesla’s stock surrenders gains after earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
Rather than transcending expectations, “Dangerous Animals” surrenders to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
Harket, 65, said he had "no problem accepting the diagnosis", adding: "With time, I've taken to heart my 94-year-old father's attitude to the way the organism gradually surrenders: 'I use whatever works'."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
Berlin surrenders; Goring surrenders; the great mysterious vault of Nazism falls open.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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And he surrendered four runs, the worst mark of his Dodgers tenure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Zambian opposition leader who was runner-up in this month's disputed presidential election surrendered to police on Thursday after two weeks in hiding following a summons over an alleged national security threat, state media reported.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Cruz de Ferro, where pilgrims leave stones they’ve carried from home, a mountain of burdens surrendered under an iron cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
He was among thousands of insurgents who surrendered in late 2001 as a US-led coalition ousted the group.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
More like a divorce case heard in camera....At any rate I was glad when Alice surrendered me to Clarice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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They included General Dietrich von Choltitz, the last Nazi commander in Paris, who arrived in late August 1944 after defying Hitler and surrendering the city.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He looked primed for a comeback victory but a different, depleted Draper returned for the third set, surrendering the opening game having led 40-15.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
If regulators in another country demand access to the company’s source code as a condition of market access, the company faces a choice between surrendering valuable intellectual property or walking away from the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
By the end, the Sparks spent the game playing catch-up, never regaining the lead after surrendering it in the first 49 seconds to Johnson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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