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surrender

[suh-ren-der] / səˈrɛn dər /




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Guterres agreed there was a climate "leadership gap" but said overshooting 1.5C "is not surrender".

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Obviously a France of spirit and aspiration exists, a France that wouldn’t wish to remember itself, in the obnoxious phrase of a U.S. cartoon character, as a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Surrender charges generally start at about 10% and drop each year until the surrender period ends, according to the Texas Department of Insurance.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

When Watters pressed him about abolishing ICE, he did not surrender the moral argument or get stuck in a defensive loop.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Johnson tried to fire him, but Stanton refused to surrender his War Department offices.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

But as soon as she surrenders into custody, the rumination would halt.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

This is equally true whether the suspect immediately surrenders or chooses to flee.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

Then she unfastens the tiny clasp in her right ear and surrenders the other pearl.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Rooney and Myha'la surrendered theirs, but traitor Jama managed to hold on to hers.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

In his fourth outing, Díaz issued three walks and surrendered five runs in just two-thirds of an inning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

What diners surrendered wasn’t necessarily quality so much as a little hospitality, a little transparency and, increasingly, the expectation that a restaurant represented somebody’s particular idea of what a restaurant should be.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Bear surrendered his collar in March after a decade of being a very good boy as one of the first dogs in the country to be trained to detect the scent of koala fur.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sometimes we had a kind of emoji war, but usually I surrendered pretty fast.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

Ashby is one out shy of matching the all-time record for the most innings thrown by a reliever in a postseason without surrendering a run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Instead of surrendering to sticker shock, people are finding ways to gamify their daily expenses, hunt down hidden perks and even double down on their goals for the future.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

She can become a mother without surrendering her career.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

After surrendering 28 first-half points, JSerra held Bishop Amat, and running back Justin Clinton, who rushed for more than 130 yards, including a 67-yard burst and a 43-yard touchdown, in check in the second half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

It was a shift in mental language, a surrendering of where I was from.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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