surrender
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In ancient Greece, the city-state of Sparta forced the surrender of Athens by blocking its grain supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“Iran will not surrender the strait at this point,” said Gregory Brew, an Iran analyst at the Eurasia Group consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 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
At the Potsdam Conference of 1945, after Germany's surrender, the allied leaders agreed that in the future Germany should be demilitarised.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Heidi gulps them down, then limps out the door, one hand up in what is supposed to be a wave but looks more like a surrender.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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