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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

That hasn’t triggered a capitulation in stocks yet, the bank’s March Fund Managers’ Survey indicated, although the poll’s broadest measure of investor sentiment still sits at the lowest level in six months.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

He does not want just capitulation, but admiration, enthusiasm, for himself and his ideas, and when he doesn’t get it he feels cheated.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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