capitulation
Example Sentences
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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
Tudor was considered fortunate in many eyes to survive that, although a deserved draw at Liverpool and that second leg win against Atletico offered hope until the capitulation against Forest.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
He expects stock capitulation only if credit spreads widen meaningfully from here.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
But Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and foreign-policy vice president at the Brookings Institution think tank, said Trump won’t swiftly get the full capitulation he seeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
The capitulation of France is only weeks past, and already he has seen things he did not dream he would see in six lifetimes.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.