surrender
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After spending years building diplomatic and police relations, Ireland and the U.A.E. in 2024 entered into a formal extradition treaty to facilitate the surrender of individuals accused or convicted of crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Japan occupied all of Korea before its 1945 surrender in the Second World War, after which the peninsula was divided into separate states along the 38th parallel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The findings led Canvey Island Town Council to surrender its lease of the lake to Castle Point Borough Council.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
The wind whined in the street and stirred the moonlit curtains, which fluttered like flags of surrender.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Local media also reported that Koreans are surrendering their life-insurance policies to buy shares, with policy surrenders said to have surged 16% in the last quarter among the top three insurers.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
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
He says that the war will end only when all hostages are returned and Hamas surrenders.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Rather than transcending expectations, “Dangerous Animals” surrenders to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
She raises the cane over her head once more, but this time the squirrel surrenders.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
He said the move could see hundreds of thousands of guns surrendered.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The league has surrendered the most potent weapon at its disposal: reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
For the second start in a row, he surrendered four home runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
She pecked and kicked and beat her wings against the fish until he surrendered to the murky depths of the pond.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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
The job has to measure up to the trade-off of precious time he’s surrendering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
If every click to enable an app or service amounted to surrendering Fourth Amendment protection, constitutional privacy would steadily evaporate as technology became more sophisticated.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Except Ilicali appears to have played his hand a little early, surrendering some of his bargaining power by openly admitting a clock is ticking.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
She knew he was the one who had made the radio announcement to all of Japan declaring that the nation was surrendering to the Allied forces.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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