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surrender

[suh-ren-der] / səˈrɛn dər /




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A government agency that controlled our land lease demanded we surrender the property.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Within days he demanded the regime's "unconditional surrender", something that hasn't happened.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 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

The Confederacy would not surrender even in the face of an almost certain Union victory.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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