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capitulation

[kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn] / kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən /


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If this is what capitulation looks like, it would be a first.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

A true capitulation, but even that wouldn’t be easy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

What Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is out to evoke is bone-deep submission: the kind of total capitulation and surrender that makes a person unrecognizable even to themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He expects stock capitulation only if credit spreads widen meaningfully from here.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

They were divided on the subject of capitulation or resistance.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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