capitulation
Example Sentences
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City, though, will be left extremely concerned by their capitulation against Everton, having gone ahead but been unable to see out the game.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
If this is what capitulation looks like, it would be a first.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 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
He expects stock capitulation only if credit spreads widen meaningfully from here.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing capitulation
The Diary of a Young Girl
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