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For Paul, the thrill of breakfast with the Reverend, may be giving way to the taste of burnt toast.

Full-scale civil wars are giving way to fragmented armed groups with decentralized power bases in remote border regions.

In other words, ethnicity was already giving way to necessity.

There was a high burden of proof giving way to reasonable doubt.

Foer argues that our digital lives are giving way to atomization and deep societal alienation.

Bruce was striking hard and persistently, and Edward was giving way all along the line of war.

He felt as though he were losing his senses, that his brain was giving way under the stress of the news he had heard.

If the whole of the house were now to join in giving way, it would have less power to resist future changes.

“They rush to the rescue when they see the sentimental defences giving way,” said Hadria.

Fortunately we had no time for giving way to reflections and conjectures which could only unfit us for the stern task ahead.

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On this page you'll find 997 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to give way, such as: bend, change, convince, inch, influence, and locomote.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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