giving way
Example Sentences
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One medicine approved across dozens of cancers and selling about $32 billion a year is giving way to something more fragmented.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
At the moment of its commercial death, VHS was giving way to the advent of a “new flesh” for home viewing: DVD.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
The first time I used it, I remember slicing into a sweet potato — the dense, orange flesh giving way so cleanly it almost felt like the knife was doing the work on its own.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
The city is ever-evolving, the past giving way to the future, birthing new guises and blurring the old.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
