cede
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“That doesn’t mean for a second that we don’t believe in the category, that we have any plans to cede distribution, or that we’re going to stop innovating. I would say just the opposite.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Metro might cede “the massive responsibility of delivering a spectator and workforce transit system” to LA28.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
In return, they cede territorial access to the US military.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Some researchers worried about AI safety also cite enfeeblement as a risk, a “WALL-E” future in which humans gradually cede control to machines and eventually become unable to define, or even understand, our destiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in a 50-by-125-mile area in southeastern Kansas.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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As OpenAI matures, anticipate it will inevitably build an in-house advertising software platform to capture the spend it currently cedes to third parties.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
However, the union said Disney’s OpenAI deal “appears to sanction its theft of our work and cedes the value of what we create to a tech company that has built its business off our backs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
How companies respond will determine whether the US continues to lead in innovation and talent - or cedes ground to more welcoming economies.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Fleet and amusing, alive to childhood’s exploratory nature, it also regrettably cedes dramatic ground at a curious point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
De Monts, efforts of, to obtain colonists, 25; cedes his privileges in Acadia, 34, 35; his commission and privileges, 153-155; descries the Isles of Shoals, 155; in Plymouth Bay, 273, 274, 275.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
By the time the sneaker giants came to their senses, they had already ceded that prime real estate to the unfamiliar, funny-looking products that have invaded our closets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Yet, Spain’s security forces have effectively ceded control of its waters, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
London and Madrid have disputed control of Gibraltar since the tiny territory was ceded to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
They won an important toss and rarely ceded the advantage of a 317-run opening stand between Tom Latham and Devon Conway.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The bill ceded a large measure of control over atomic research to the military.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Aspen has been soul-searching for half a century, since hippie ski bums began ceding ground to luxury real-estate developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That war of wills ended with the Emirates ceding control of Bab el-Mandeb — along with the nearby island of Perim, where the Emirates had built a drone airbase — to Saudi Arabia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
While chip stocks were bouncing on Tuesday and software stocks were ceding some ground, neither move unwinds the extent of Monday’s performance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Yosemite NPS Employees Union said it was "appalled" by the ceding of public lands for private interests, calling the proposed trade "antithetical to what we stand for" as stewards of the park.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The thought of ceding to the army a project in which the foundation had such an immense stake stirred Fosdick’s proprietary blood.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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