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A seat at the table is too important to cede to whoever is willing to leak a photograph.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

He’d cede that portion of the voting control of his company to these new young shareholders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Metro might cede “the massive responsibility of delivering a spectator and workforce transit system” to LA28.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Never one to cede the spotlight, Trump returned to the stage on Thursday night after Vance to round off the convention.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Hollander’s essay and the comments of Lethem and Plagens cede ground and seem to grant that art and literature are too soft to withstand scientific examination.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

To get the upfront tax deduction, the donor cedes legal control of the donated funds to the DAF sponsor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The announcement answers long-simmering questions about a successor for 65-year-old Cook, who said he will become executive chairman of the board when he cedes Apple's CEO position.

From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026

Fleet and amusing, alive to childhood’s exploratory nature, it also regrettably cedes dramatic ground at a curious point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

"If you cross me, I'm just like my father / I am colder than Titanic water," she warns, before the song cedes way to the 18th Century aria, Caro Mio Ben.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024

Germany cedes to Poland the greater part of upper Silesia, Posen, and the Province of West Prussia on the left bank of the Vistula.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

Mr. Specht argues that the “the ownership society ceded a lot of autonomy to local communities” and that “local governance has become little more than a blanket veto on any proposal for new development.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It has also ceded its position as the Nordic country's second-largest political force.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

When the Buss family ceded majority control of the Lakers in 2025, the franchise was worth nearly 150 times what their patriarch had paid for it in 1979.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

London and Madrid have disputed control of Gibraltar since the tiny territory was ceded to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

It promised to restore her lost provinces and ceded territories.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

On Thursday, the French government made its first sign of ceding ground to protesters, with a promise of 3,000 extra supply teachers in the coming days.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

That war of wills ended with the Emirates ceding control of Bab el-Mandeb — along with the nearby island of Perim, where the Emirates had built a drone airbase — to Saudi Arabia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Pregnancy and birth involve a level of ceding control for anyone who experiences them.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

One question is the wisdom of ceding more tariff authority to the White House.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Alec slowly raises his hands toward the ceding.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner