surrender
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Truman held doggedly to Roosevelt’s demand for unconditional surrender as the atomic bomb test lighted up the New Mexico sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Other research has pointed the same way, highlighting what has come to be called "cognitive offloading" -- or even "cognitive surrender".
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
For it was an outbreak of plague that finally did the Athenians in and forced them to surrender to the Spartans.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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But last December’s decision to license H200 sales surrenders that lead.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 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
And it proceeds in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat moves until one of the parties involved surrenders.
From Salon ● May 20, 2025
Berlin surrenders; Goring surrenders; the great mysterious vault of Nazism falls open.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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After the U.S. forces surrendered, Schurtz left his position and approached the Japanese to make sure they knew hostilities had ended, saving his men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Detectives then identified the suspect, who walked into a Santa Monica Police Department station and surrendered himself Tuesday evening, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Despite being fit enough to play, the Arsenal winger remained an unused substitute as Thomas Tuchel's side surrendered a 1-0 lead in the closing stages to lose 2-1 to holders Argentina.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
More like a divorce case heard in camera....At any rate I was glad when Alice surrendered me to Clarice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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
AMD was also briefly worth $900 billion-plus on an intraday basis before surrendering some gains.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
After missing out on six World Cups in a row, and maybe surrendering to fatalism along the way, game day is upon us here in the United States.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Despite surrendering a line-drive single to Geraldo Perdomo, Ohtani escaped unscathed thanks to the inning-ending double play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
First, it is crucial to recognize that Washington’s extraordinary reputation rested less on his prudent exercise of power than on his dramatic flair at surrendering it.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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