surrender
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Japan occupied all of Korea before its 1945 surrender in the Second World War, after which the peninsula was divided into separate states along the 38th parallel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The findings led Canvey Island Town Council to surrender its lease of the lake to Castle Point Borough Council.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Yet the veterans refuse to surrender to the upstarts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
“So you’re saying that unless I surrender, you will continue to move away from me?”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
A chairman who avoids discussing the outlook can’t explain the committee’s decisions and surrenders a tool for steering it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Local media also reported that Koreans are surrendering their life-insurance policies to buy shares, with policy surrenders said to have surged 16% in the last quarter among the top three insurers.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
Rather than transcending expectations, “Dangerous Animals” surrenders to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
There’s more beauty and fascination in an imperfect film that surrenders to its flaws, urging its artists to build around them.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
Berlin surrenders; Goring surrenders; the great mysterious vault of Nazism falls open.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
He said the move could see hundreds of thousands of guns surrendered.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The league has surrendered the most potent weapon at its disposal: reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Too weak to resist, the carrot quietly surrendered to the force of his jaws.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
He looked primed for a comeback victory but a different, depleted Draper returned for the third set, surrendering the opening game having led 40-15.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
SpaceX briefly surpassed Microsoft on an intraday basis before surrendering some gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Full of survivor’s guilt, he was surrendering himself to the random forces of the uni-verse, trying to punish himself for still being alive.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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