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surrender

[suh-ren-der] / səˈrɛn dər /




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"This is not the moment to surrender -- this is the moment to fight back".

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Also look into any surrender charges if you need more than 10%, and see for yourself how reliable the insurer offering the annuity is, experts said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

That requires leaders willing to place constitutional responsibility above political convenience, institutions prepared to exercise meaningful oversight, and citizens who refuse to surrender their judgment to the most compelling voice in the room.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

For decades, Europeans have been happy to surrender around half of their pay to the state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

He was offering me the same terms of surrender he had offered my sister.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

He says that the war will end only when all hostages are returned and Hamas surrenders.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

And it proceeds in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat moves until one of the parties involved surrenders.

From Salon ● May 20, 2025

She raises the cane over her head once more, but this time the squirrel surrenders.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Diana and Jerry Green returned to Massachusetts and surrendered themselves to the court.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

After a few weeks of this, I surrendered.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 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

One of his victims told the BBC she had assumed his passport would automatically be surrendered after he was charged and said she was "so disappointed in the law."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

I was drinking it when I heard the radio broadcast that the Dutch had surrendered.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

However, the deadline has passed without the senator surrendering the passports, prompting speculation he may have left the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

It was a shift in mental language, a surrendering of where I was from.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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