surrender
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Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Sources familiar with the operation but not authorized to speak publicly said U.S. federal agents had been in contact with Guzmán López, and were pressuring him to surrender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Other research has pointed the same way, highlighting what has come to be called "cognitive offloading" -- or even "cognitive surrender".
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Schiaparelli's creative director Daniel Roseberry's haute couture collection for Autumn/Winter 2026-2027 was entitled The Call of the Void, which he says was "a total surrender to an unknown creative process".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
She convinced herself, perhaps because it was a part of herself she couldn’t surrender without some kind of struggle.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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But last December’s decision to license H200 sales surrenders that lead.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 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
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
This astonishing show of might among the Allies is the beginning of the end for Germany and Japan, though a year will pass before there are any more surrenders.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Phillips, who last week talked about rewiring his rehab mindset, has already surrendered four home runs in just seven outings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Gray surrendered at the scene and has remained in custody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Despite being fit enough to play, the Arsenal winger remained an unused substitute as Thomas Tuchel's side surrendered a 1-0 lead in the closing stages to lose 2-1 to holders Argentina.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
All occupied territories in France and Belgium were to be evacuated immediately, and all territory conquered in eastern Europe since 1914, including lands ceded by Russia at Brest-Litovsk, was to be surrendered.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
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
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
Give up Hope, and I will know that you are surrendering.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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