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capitulation

[kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn] / kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən /


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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

That hasn’t triggered a capitulation in stocks yet, the bank’s March Fund Managers’ Survey indicated, although the poll’s broadest measure of investor sentiment still sits at the lowest level in six months.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

The capitulation of France is only weeks past, and already he has seen things he did not dream he would see in six lifetimes.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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