capitulation
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If this is what capitulation looks like, it would be a first.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
A true capitulation, but even that wouldn’t be easy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
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
For them, apologising to foreign governments risks appearing as capitulation at a time of national crisis.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
They were divided on the subject of capitulation or resistance.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing capitulation
The Diary of a Young Girl
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