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capitulation

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


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City, though, will be left extremely concerned by their capitulation against Everton, having gone ahead but been unable to see out the game.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 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

The fair’s capitulation pumped steam into America’s—and Chicago’s—already-boiling labor movement.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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