surrender
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"We do not know the meaning of surrender... If necessary, we will carry out massive savings. We will be even more thrifty later on."
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Andrew Milgram of Marblegate Asset Management has warned of a potential “doom loop”: Worries about private credit lead retirees to surrender their annuities, forcing more selling of loans that don’t trade, feeding more worry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue,” Altman posted on X a weekend ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
There was a total £1.8m penalty for the "dilapidations" to Royal Lodge, but that has been reduced by the £300,000 Mountbatten-Windsor would have received for an early surrender of his lease.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
But the German High Command was not prepared to surrender the territories in Belgium, France, and Russia occupied by German armies.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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This is equally true whether the suspect immediately surrenders or chooses to flee.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 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
District Judge Margaret Garnett released Van Dyke while he awaits trial, on conditions including that he surrenders his passport and any firearms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
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
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It says the King has "loaned" Andrew the £1.5m sum, and notes that the former prince formerly surrendered his 75-year lease earlier this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Federal authorities say Diamantis fled to Florida, jumped on a boat to the Bahamas, and then flew via London to Athens—likely using a Greek passport he was supposed to have surrendered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Lefty Tanner Scott, whom Roberts plans to use in a fireman role, surrendered a two-run homer to Ozzie Albies in the ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
We’d surrendered to the idea that there was no longer room for impulsiveness and whimsy in our own lives.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
The bigger point for Airbnb and other marketplaces is that losing control of customer acquisition could mean surrendering some of their pricing power and margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
Once, in the middle of winter, someone opened a window while she was lecturing and threw ice water on her; instead of surrendering, Stone wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and kept talking.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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