surrender

Example Sentences

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“It’s my dream now to surrender fully to sleep, to be relaxed and sleep calmly at night,” Abdul-Aal said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 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

The people who will thrive alongside AI aren’t the ones who surrender to it most efficiently, they’re the ones who use it to stress-test their thinking and expand their cognitive range.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Starting in February 1865, Cooke sold $830 million in bonds in six months, allowing Union troops to force a surrender in April.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

In Berlin, a delegation was formed to meet with Allied war leaders and ask for surrender terms.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman