cede
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As Canadians may also remember, Benjamin Franklin later argued that Britain should cede all of Quebec to the new nation, and he won that argument more than you might think.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
In my mindset, if I cede this platform to the other side, then who’s going to get to do Jubilee?
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
But Dan Plumley, senior lecturer in sport finance at Loughborough University in the UK, believes FSG have no immediate plans to cede complete control.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Detractors say that AI systems make mistakes, making it dangerous for humans to cede control to machines in the heat of the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
I cede control to my lower half, which is actually pointing toward my room, and lead Nia to it.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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As OpenAI matures, anticipate it will inevitably build an in-house advertising software platform to capture the spend it currently cedes to third parties.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
However, the union said Disney’s OpenAI deal “appears to sanction its theft of our work and cedes the value of what we create to a tech company that has built its business off our backs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Safety Derwin James Jr. said he’s never been around a coach such as Harbaugh, who cedes the huddle to players at random.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
"If you cross me, I'm just like my father / I am colder than Titanic water," she warns, before the song cedes way to the 18th Century aria, Caro Mio Ben.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
March 28th.—Treaty of Peace between France and Naples, who cedes Elba and Piombino.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
With the decline, Nvidia ceded back to Apple the position of largest U.S. company by market cap, a title it has held since May of last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
London and Madrid have disputed control of Gibraltar since the tiny territory -- known affectionately as "The Rock" -- was ceded to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The company fell behind during the rise of the mobile internet and ceded ground to rivals making processors for smartphones, data center servers and other devices in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Every one of the 13 penalties England conceded sapped their momentum, ceded territory and ratcheted up pressure.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
All occupied territories in France and Belgium were to be evacuated immediately, and all territory conquered in eastern Europe since 1914, including lands ceded by Russia at Brest-Litovsk, was to be surrendered.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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In an interview with Bill Moyers shared by the Berry Center in 2025, Berry said that he and his compatriots had had enough of the state government ceding control of resources to the coal companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Pregnancy and birth involve a level of ceding control for anyone who experiences them.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
Some of them are said to be concerned that the company risks ceding ground to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, among others.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Now, with algorithms controlling not just weapons but entire military networks, humans are ceding wartime judgment to machines on an unprecedented scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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