surrender
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Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Sources familiar with the operation but not authorized to speak publicly said U.S. federal agents had been in contact with Guzmán López, and were pressuring him to surrender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Schiaparelli's creative director Daniel Roseberry's haute couture collection for Autumn/Winter 2026-2027 was entitled The Call of the Void, which he says was "a total surrender to an unknown creative process".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Instead, it has relied on character, restraint, discerning judgment and a capacity to distinguish between compromise and moral surrender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“You fill out a surrender form,” Claire says.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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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
Eventually, the U.S. surrenders after a German nuclear attack; and America is occupied by Nazi Germany along the eastern seaboard and Japan on the West Coast, with a pseudo-independent Vichy regime in the Rockies.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
Then she unfastens the tiny clasp in her right ear and surrenders the other pearl.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Gray surrendered at the scene and has remained in custody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
If England are to regain the World Cup, having surrendered it meekly in 2023, much of the responsibility will rest on Joe Root's shoulders.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
To lead off the fourth inning, Yamamoto surrendered a solo homer to Trent Grisham.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Mother said hell would freeze over before she surrendered her kitchen to an owl, then marched in and began slamming pots to make breakfast.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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If regulators in another country demand access to the company’s source code as a condition of market access, the company faces a choice between surrendering valuable intellectual property or walking away from the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
By the end, the Sparks spent the game playing catch-up, never regaining the lead after surrendering it in the first 49 seconds to Johnson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
Except Ilicali appears to have played his hand a little early, surrendering some of his bargaining power by openly admitting a clock is ticking.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
In the moonlight, Sherm looked sad, as if he were the one surrendering.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
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