surrender
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Japan has hosted US military bases ever since its surrender in World War II.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
As U.S. forces closed in on Japan in 1945, the nation’s military leaders refused to consider surrender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
She must also surrender her passport, adhere to a curfew, provide her phone number to gardaí, and sign on daily at garda station in County Kildare.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Robert had been at the surrender at Appomattox, and his father was eager to hear the details.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
Writing one big check surrenders that $2,000 in each of the four off years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 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
The animals are also trained to come away when told and to leave anyone who surrenders.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
Rather than transcending expectations, “Dangerous Animals” surrenders to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
He said the move could see hundreds of thousands of guns surrendered.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Alexandra Lozano, who was licensed to practice law in Washington state and had an office in Commerce, surrendered her bar license and closed her law firm in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Gray surrendered at the scene and has remained in custody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Having nowhere to go, she surrendered to impossible and applied for the job at our family’s store, where she was hired because Olka sewed like she did everything in life, with full intensity and effort.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Datamaxxers are getting a DIY head start, although some worry about surrendering too much of their privacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
Perhaps she’s the only thing keeping him from surrendering totally.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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